Our World - Humble Hero

This week, we bring you an extraordinary story about a man who has single-handedly improved the lives of millions of people with an idea so simple, yet so brilliant, and inspired by a spirit of compassion. More than 30 years ago, Muhammed Yunus lived in Bangladesh, working as an economist and a professor. Noticing that the poor lacked even the simplest resources to break free of abject poverty he had a sudden inspiration. He founded a bank that would do something no others would - lend money to those with no collateral to start up small businesses. And most of those receiving these small loans were women. This concept was called micro financing and it started a small revolution in banking. His Grameen Bank model is now copied in many poor countries and vast numbers have lifted themselves our of poverty as a result. In 2006, Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, and he has written a book called Creating a World Without Poverty, which argues that corporations can both make a profit and help the poorest communities at the same time. Muhammad Yunus' bold idea has helped millions of the very poorest but the world food crisis, which has escalated this past year, now threatens so many more people in Africa and Asia with starvation. One country especially badly hit is Ethiopia. In the early 1980's Brian reported on the catastrophic famine that killed one million people there. Hopefully we won't see that scale of catastrophe again, but it's a crisis that we need to watch. The United Nations is asking for donations in a desperate attempt to save the millions facing the threat of starvation. We present the CBC's David McGuffin's report on the situation. ============================================================== Name.............: OurWorld.HumbleHero.xvid.avi Filesize..........: 389 MB (or 399,094 KB or 408,672,256 bytes) Runtime.........: 00:21:34 (38,795 fr) Video Codec...: XviD Video Bitrate...: 2359 kb/s FPS...............: 29.970 Audio Codec...: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate...: 157 kb/s (78/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.97 Frame Size.....: 640x448 (1.43:1) [=10:7] Frame Quality..: 0.275 bits/pixel

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