A Common Foundation

I just read about an initiative sponsored by religious leaders in Minnesota called, A Common Foundation: Shared Principals for Overcoming Poverty. In 2004, 35 leaders signed a document that would help people have a voice to help end poverty. They are asking people to start to hold the vision of a Minnesota without poverty become a reality.

Half way across the world a man named, Muhammed Yunus is waging his own war on poverty. He believes that poverty generates hostility and anger and peace is not possible where poverty exists. Yunas is a banker in Bangladesh and a winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. His mission to to provide very small income producing or educational loans that will help people out of poverty. He is pictured above with Mosammat Taslima Begum the first recipient of a loan. She used the money to purchase a goat and now has a small business that feeds her family. In all he has given loans to 7 million poor people, 97% who are women in 73,000 villages! What I find amazing that something so simple could make such a huge impact.

What if we looked at our world from a place of a common foundation? What can you as one person do to make this a better place? Blessings~

Sandy