Microcredit - You Can Help Break the Cycle of Poverty
Without donating a penny, you can help to break the cycle of poverty in a very real way. Simply by placing a $1,000 microcredit investment you can pull several families in the developing world out of poverty for every year your money is invested. This is not a donation or charity. Like other investments, you eventually get all of your money back. You even earn a small amount of interest on your investment.
2005 is the year of Microcredit.
Fred Burks, former personal interpreter for presidents Bush and Clinton, says he has found this an effective way to help, promoting real economic development that allows people in poor countries to build up their own economic base.
... and since "illegal immigration" is always driven by economic disparity - the poor who cannot survive in their country come to yours to try and make enough to feed their family - this would be a good way to start doing something about all those immigrants. Help them where they are and they won't have to come to your country!
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"From coin to paper currency, and from currency to credit card there is a steady progression toward commercial exchange as the movement of information itself. This trend toward an inclusive information is the kind of image represented by the credit card, and approaches once more the character of tribal money. For tribal society, not knowing the specialisms of job or of work, does not specialize money either. Its money can be eaten, drunk, or worn like the new space ships that are now designed to be edible. "Work," however, does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work."
From Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, p. 137-8.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday October 23 2005
updated on Monday September 29 2008URL of this article:
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