'Banker to the Poor' - the story of how Grameen Bank developed 'Creating a World Without Poverty' - introduces his concept of a Social Business, and gives a far reaching vision of how they can be used to tackle much of the poverty and injustice in our societies across the world.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Life Audits, Social Business etc - Notes from 17/9/08 Chipping Norton meeting
We had some stimulating discussion today about Muhammad Yunus' work and writings, Susan George's writings, Witney's Meller Gallery, and life audits.
A sample life audit document is attached, for info. Clearly very sketchy at this stage. group had various comments about this, including that it needs to be broken into short chunks, needs more open questions, more balanced selection of questions, should not be intimidating, etc. For next month we agreed to try and think about what a life audit should be, and come with our own ideas and suggestions ready to discuss them next month.
Muhammad Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank and pioneer of microcredit banking and social businesses. His two books (listed below) give a very stimulating vision of how to tackle poverty effectively, wherever it is found. Well worth a read (in Marcus' opinion):
Susan George has actually written several books concerning international debt, including some more current ones - see the following:
The Meller Gallery in Witney is an inspiring example of how christian thinking, creative arts, business and humanitarian concern can come together in a highly effective way - see here:
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