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Chargement... The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time (édition 2014)par Bob Harris (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Really liked, not perfect but a good mix of stuff. Funny, absorbing, educational, and inspirational. ( ) Bob Harris was writing an article on the world's most luxurious hotels. Appalled at the waste he saw and the gulf between the lives of the richest and the poorest--Bob decided to take the fees he earned and do something good with it. He researched and began loaning funds out through Kiva and other micro-lending organizations. He then traveled the world and met some of the real individuals who are recipients of those funds to hear their stories and find out how those relatively small loans can make a huge difference downstream. In his book International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time, Harris connects the story to his own background--from roots in Appalachian poverty his own parents moved up for a better opportunity. He describes the long hours his own father put in--and how he sees that and his mother time and again reflected in these hard working individuals around the world. He also tells the bigger story of micro lending in the book--of Kiva and other organizations--their successes and failures. This is as much a travelogue of the world's poorest regions. He does it with humor and respect for those he meets (except in a couple cases the individuals are not told that he was their benefactor). I've been a big fan myself of Kiva, and also organizations like D-Rev and Room to Read that are on the ground solving real problems. In this vein, here are other books I would recommend on globalization and giving back: Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli An economics professor chases the economics of a simple t-shirt around the world and it's effect on the economy--from it's creation in a factory to a used clothing economy in Africa. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood John Wood left his career at Microsoft to start and fund Room to Read and libraries all over the world. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedmann Friedmann explains the economics of globalization. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Diamond explains how history and resources has benefited some groups over others. The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist Lessons on how to give back. Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Ehrenreich joins the working poor working for minimum wage to show the endless cycle of poverty. This book is about micro-lending, but even more it is about people who give so much to be the ones on the scene to facilitate the loans of people like me who put up a bit of cash and receive a lot of joy in watching that cash go out, come back, and go out to someone else. It is also about people who receive those loans and how that money makes a huge difference in their lives and spreads out to others as well. My hat's off to Bob Harris for all he did in order to get these first-hand accounts. He then did a wonderful job of writing in such an interesting and often humorous way. This book is a great read. I learned so much about various places and customs and rejoiced that there are so many exceptional people in our world. "You love more, you win." The author had a free lance assignment for Forbes Travel and got to travel ,stay at high class locations& hobnob with the rich. While in Dubai he encountered some foreign laborers who were hardworkers but very poor . With all the wealth surrounding these workers who were doing the actual construction of all the fantastic buildings in Dubai the author had enough of the opulence connected to the Forbes assignment found out about Kiva, an organization that makes microloans to individuals all over the world in increments of $25.00. So he took all the money from the Forbes assignment and loaned it through Kiva to a number of different individuals around the world. And he visited many of the people who received the loans to see the story and the results. I wanted to read this book because I had also have loaned money through Kiva and have always been repaid. The actual repayment rate for these microloans is about 99%. Most of the loans that people ask for are rather small and you are helping someone start a business, maybe buy supplies for a small business. It's a feel good project to be able to help another person. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better. Bob found his way to Kiva.org, the leading portal through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as $25-50, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99%, so he re-loaned the money to others over and over again. After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life-political and emotional-in much of the world that Americans never see. Told with humor and compassion, The International Bank of Bob brings the world to our doorstep, and makes clear that each of us can, actually, make it better. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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