On the positive side, Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, particularly women. The economist and the bank he founded have been instrumental in helping millions of poor Bangladeshis, many of them women, improve their standard of living by letting them borrow small sums to start businesses like buying cows to start a dairy, chickens for an egg business, or mobile phones to start businesses where villagers who have no access to phones pay a small fee to make calls. Click here to read the press release.The mirror image here showing the worse side of human nature is this story out of Uniontown, Pennsylvania where a youth baseball coach was convicted of offering an 8-year-old $25 to bean an autistic teammate so he couldn't play in a playoff game. The player hit the mildly autistic child in the groin and then in the ear to try and knock him out of the game. How sad is that.
It's so sad to think that humans have such a capacity for good yet display such selfish and evil actions that tear so many down. Are you lifting people up or tearing them down?
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