Professor Muhammad Yunus at Sunway University 17th August 2018
When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. #WealthConcentration You change the system and people get out from poverty. It is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle ...
