I think this is vital but if one searches its emergence , there's a
lot of junk as well as good
it seems to me that the 2 biggest missing pieces in educational curriculum involve
empowering youth to experiment in sustaining small teamwork projects in the commnunity; and then if these turn out to be close
to your own deepest ability to serve others, to provide mentor and peer support geared to helping work out how to make incme
generating activity out of your service focus (what true microcredit does)
what seems to make this hard is that
schools typically dont begin to give any experience on this and laws may actually forbid or make this complicated-however
small scale the fusion between schooling and banking that could be designed in
I expect youth microfinance to become
one of the big issues Dr Yunus would like to share ideas on- interestingly this is as relevant to developing youth capabilities
in the less glamorous suburbs of new york as it is in developing countries
we are starting slowly on the new york
potential for this but would love to share ideas across places chris macae us tel 301 881 1655
