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I want to learn all about micro lending. And then I want to teach others.This is something like starting the journey of a thousand miles with a single step...
“Poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum,” writes Muhammad Yunus near the end of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. “I want to see a world free from poverty.”
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