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¶ … Grameen project (bank) is an enlightened and unique attempt to relieve poverty among the world's poor and disadvantaged. The project began in Bangladesh and is based on the theory that the poor are credit-worthy under the right circumstances and that they have skills that are being under-utilized. The project operates at a grass roots level with little structure and employing the local population in order to create a community style approach. Through strong support and subtle pressures the project builds a system where the borrowers receive pressure from members of the community to repay small loans and, in the process, build their credit.
The project operates in areas where the Muslim religion is very prominent and strong. The standards and traditions established through the centuries in these areas makes any change difficult to effectuate and one of these changes is the presence of women in the workplace. Women in the areas where the project operates are traditionally not employed outside the home and, in fact, are...
In recruiting women to work for the project the organizers must address these concerns first with the new potential hires and, secondly, with their families. Women in these societies are expected to follow the lead of their mothers and male figures in their families.
As nearly all the borrowers assisted by the project are women it is important that the project recruit women to be part of the lending process. At the beginning of the article the author explains in painful detail the difficulty that the project has encountered in convincing women to become involved in the loan process. It is explained how the women suffer emotionally and physically to bring themselves to act contrary to how they have been expected to behave throughout their entire lives in order to bring themselves to participate in the loan program. The struggle of the women demonstrates the nuances involved in the battle against poverty and how difficult it is to overcome traditions…
Interpretive sociology does not agree with the thought that behavior is related to society as effect is related to cause since this entire idea is dysfunctional with that which composes social life in reality. Interpretive sociology holds that understanding of our fellow man should be the pursuit of each day as sense is made of their individual societal existence. Seeking to understand is the concept held in interpretive sociology
The public face of stigma involves the general public's negative beliefs, feelings and behaviours directed toward those with a stigma" (¶ 4). Public stigma may contribute to a cycle of poverty by: a) Employers discriminating against obese individuals or those who may be HIV-infected or mentally ill. b) Being poor, per se, may contribute to even more public stigmatization. Self-stigma and public stigma closely connect, Reeder and Pryor (2008) stress
India and China are making mammoth strides in the area of development. However, while development in both nations has been remarkable, there is today much worry about whether such growth yields and will yield adequate poverty decline. Within the past two decades, researchers have seen a large and noticeable fall within the number of people that live on the famous, less than U.S.$1.25 a day, which is the World Bank's
Womanist Theology An individual theologian's reflection about the nature of God is not strictly about God alone. Rather, it is intimately bound-up with the theologian's own way of viewing the world. One fairly recent example of this comes from Elie Weisel, a Nobel-prize winning writer. Weisel is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who has written about how his experiences in the concentration camps have caused him to think differently about
Companies such as XYZ Widget Corporation are well situated to take advantage of burgeoning markets in developing nations, particularly in Asia and Africa. 2. XYZ can grow its business by expanding its operations to certain developing nations in ways that profit the company as well as the impoverished regions that are involved, particularly when marketing efforts are coordinated with nongovernmental organizations operating in the region. 3. Several constraints and challenges must
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 1990, this act was updated and reformed as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which itself was reformed in 1997. At each step, the goal was to make education more equitable and more accessible to