{"id":27654,"date":"2012-02-15T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=27654"},"modified":"2012-02-15T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:07:35","slug":"bonsai-people-the-vision-of-muhammad-yunus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/02\/15\/bonsai-people-the-vision-of-muhammad-yunus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/holly_mosher_video.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of the concept of micro-credit, Muhammad Yunus, has strongly criticized new micro-finance banks in India, saying they are not meant to be profit-generating institutions. The world-renowned Bangladeshi Professor created the concept of small-scale loans to primarily women in Bangladesh, which is one of the world&#8217;s poorest countries. Through the Grameen bank, whose name is based on the Bengali word for village, poor women are offered low-interest very small-scale loans with which to improve their lives, either upgrade their homes, purchase livestock, or start a small business. To date, millions of women in Bangladesh have benefited from the loans. Employing a unique model that centers on groups of women, five at a time, who meet regularly, the bank&#8217;s goal is not to generate profit for share holders, rather to generate what Yunus calls &#8220;social businesses&#8221; &#8212; businesses that are aimed at creating social good. Affiliated with the Grameen Bank are educational institutions, health clinics, and even a renewable energy component. Now, a new documentary by veteran film maker Holly Mosher, attempts to document this remarkable institution and the impact it has had in her new film Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Holly Mosher on February 13, 2012 in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of this interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXNoylp92Mw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of the concept of micro-credit, Muhammad Yunus, has strongly criticized new micro-finance banks in India, saying they are not meant to be profit-generating institutions. The world-renowned Bangladeshi Professor created the concept of small-scale loans to primarily women in Bangladesh, which is one of the world&#8217;s poorest countries. Through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}