Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.  He founded Grameen Bank in the late 70’s to help fight poverty after visits to the poorest households in the villages of Bangladesh.  Yunus found that conventional banks would not lend to poor people without any collateral.  He provided the first loan of $27.00 from his own pocket to 42 women in the village.

Today Grameen Bank has 7.61 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women.  With 2,535 branches, Grameen Bank provides services in 83,343 villages, covering more than 99 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh.

Grameen Bank has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity.

More importantly we see not only lending but something else. We see that limiting beliefs have been subverted. 

Challenge your beliefs and the beliefs of others.   
They determine how you behave.