La pobreza no es invencible

Last night I went to a talk given by Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He is from Bangladesh, where he started up a program of microcredit that has helped hundreds of thousands of people. It’s really interesting and seems so logical–basically, he loaned small amounts of money to the poor in order for them to start their own businesses or shops. Through empowering them, he has helped them to get out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus repeatedly says that poverty is not unbeatable; it is a condition of our society and not of the people who live in poverty. I like his attitude…basically, if we work to change it, we can. Poverty is a result of a faulty system that can be changed.
People like him give me hope that the world will change, and that we can each do something to change it. If one man was able to do such good in one country, can’t we all?