Banker to the Poor
Sep. 11th, 2009 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI've mentioned being a Kiva lender. Just saw a link tonight to the website of Muhammad Yunus, one of the co-winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for developing the idea of microlending to the poor. He has a chapter of his book Banker to the Poor up on his website, and it's truly fascinating reading (not to mention inspiring).
What I did today to make the world a better place: We got a call from the school today to pick up Delia, because the school nurse thought she might have strep throat. I was driving home and thinking about how sad she'd been to be stuck at home all day, and I remembered she'd mentioned the other day being frustrated that she didn't have the money to buy art materials. I swung by the bead store and bought some of the sterling silver wire she's been using to make chain mail jewelry, came home and gave it to her as a surprise. We may be broke, but I've always loved this poem:
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Moslih Eddin Saadi, Gulistan (Garden of Roses)
Today, I took silver wire and used it to feed my daughter's soul. It was the right thing to do.
What I did today to make the world a better place: We got a call from the school today to pick up Delia, because the school nurse thought she might have strep throat. I was driving home and thinking about how sad she'd been to be stuck at home all day, and I remembered she'd mentioned the other day being frustrated that she didn't have the money to buy art materials. I swung by the bead store and bought some of the sterling silver wire she's been using to make chain mail jewelry, came home and gave it to her as a surprise. We may be broke, but I've always loved this poem:
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Moslih Eddin Saadi, Gulistan (Garden of Roses)
Today, I took silver wire and used it to feed my daughter's soul. It was the right thing to do.