Riz Khan - Becoming a banker to the poor - 08 Nov 07

Riz Khan looks at how microfinancing is assisting small businessmen and women in developing countries.

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[saidpharmd]

I donated simply because its interest free which is an Islamic concept of lending no interest no favors such as I'd loan you the money under the condition of given your daughter to my son for mirriage

[hajqbvii]

What a marvelous concept...People Power over the internet. There's always hope for the world with people like this. Hope he keeps his enthusiasm, what an inspiring young man!

[mexrilla]

@TheMrtobehonest

how?

[TheMrtobehonest]

This idea is a revelation

[sunny219]

that Premal guy sounds like he's not happy with the fact that the original idea came from somebody other than him...Riz Khan did a nice job shoving Yunus's name on his face!

[Lala2878]

fantastic idea!!! i liked what he said, about the transparency of it. thats true, people want to donate and SEE where the money is actually going.

[basicleighjamie]

This is a great idea, this is just another way to help people in other parts of the world, the best part about this is that you know who it is that you are helping directly, and its a great feeling so as much as we know that we have to educate birt control, this is helping.

[roxhana2]

i love you premal shah!. you're amazing!!!

[kedordu]

lifting them from poverty is easier said than done. and that a long term view . decreasing the birth rate is more immediate or theyll continue to fight for scarce resources.

[darbazzzy]

billions of the oil money are

inlow to azerbaijan,but so many my counterparts need micro credits specially refugees from the violent karabakh region, thats a shame to the government and thanks a lot to ngo's and premal shah, they are doing much more than oil reach country to its own citisens...

[Dritalin]

Who said they WANTED birth control. It might solve a lot of the problems in the world, but just like genocide it doesn't address the real issue. Lift them from poverty and you wont need to worry about "overpopulation" (in many third world countries, ie, not India, less then 3% of land mass is developed) As

Besides, micro loans are incompatible with charity health care.

[Proneural]

How is this ignorant? Providing basic health services to people is essential. Birth control is cheap, and enabling its distribution would be a public good.