SHEfin nort microCREDITsummit

[chris macrae]

community SHEfin = safety-health-education-finance

brand names matter if you are going to attract suitable teachers and students -let alone sponsors collecting/researching what really happened

in terms of numbers of people the greatest economic miracle is rural keynes- by the 1970s this was emerging in both south china and bangladesh -indeed village needed the same training curricula and gladly shared such miracles as oral rehydration which gives village mothers the power to save the death

f a quarter of all infants who advertise die in humid places with no electricity grids and hence little sanitation unless you have the right tlocal training

by 1977 the economist had clarified what rural keynesianism was about- schumacher had said poverty's deepest challenge involves millions of villages - ie regions that had been left disconnected on such vital infrastructure as electricity grids

SHEfin community building - safety health including food and water security, education ie learning by doing so the coomunity owned local skills on saftey, health and nutrition - was what the first 15 years of wpoorest village women building bangladesh with the rural advancement committee was about - so what naiive person declared microcreditsummit as the annual way from 1997 to celebrate ending poverty

yes once tens of thousands of microfranchises of health and nutrition and safety were operating by replicating service models with positive cash flows owned by village mothers they needed a financial service system- but it was up to brac -any any other movements claiming to be making bangladesh the open university of omen ending poverty - to design the franchises and the market value chains

in a very real sense this was adam smithian - in terms of community market that wee so transparent that both sellers and buyers knew the cost so goodwill mattered as women both became business operators needing credit and family savers- there was never in the bangladesh model the idea of offering loans without savings

to this day i havent seen any attempt in any university college to provide the correct curriculum on this- one reason why youth as the sustainability generation should want half of american universities never reopen

the other half should be collaborating now on bit missing and false curriculum- we invite you to tweet ideas on that at zoomuni.net