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Microcredit increasingly discredited

woensdag, april 18, 2012

The success of the acclaimed microcredit is eroding fast. There is an increasing doubt about the effect of these small loans without collateral for the poorest. Stories of families sinking deeper into poverty due to exorbitant interest rates are no exception. A reason for 1We – One World Experience, the new style empowerment foundation, to make a U-turn and do it differently.   Six years ago 1We – One World Experience already started a new form of microcredit. If a family in Bangladesh for example qualifies... 

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Jardim Gramacho, the waste land of Rio

woensdag, december 14, 2011

Jardim Gramacho is known as one of the biggest landfills in the world. 7,000 up to 12,000 tons of garbage arrive daily making up 70% of the trash produced by the metropolitan of Rio de Janeiro. The gigantic dumpsite is an economy itself. In 1970 the landfill was established as a sanitary waste facility. During the economic crises of the seventies and eighties the ground became home to an anarchic community of scavengers. These so called catadores live and work in the garbage, collecting all kinds of recyclable materials.... 

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Former top model Bibi Russell had a dream

donderdag, november 10, 2011

Her hand woven yellow sari makes her look like a real ‘Bengali girl’. It is a phrase she uses several times. She must be halfway into her fifties right now, but her age doesn’t seem to affect her. Former top model Bibi Russell is still a beauty and now in the second prime of her life. After fifteen years of glitter and glamour she decided to listen to her heart and went back to her roots in Bangladesh. “I had a dream”, says Bibi, who now offers work to 35,000 weavers as a fashion designer. Bibi Russell is... 

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1We-TV: It starts with water

zaterdag, juli 23, 2011

Six crazy guys, a white container and a world issue to solve. These three elements form the thrilling storyline of the TV program ‘IT STARTS WITH WATER’. In this dynamic documentary 1We-TV follows six Dutch entrepreneurs in Kenya who face the challenge to find a solution for what seems to become the largest world problem ever: access to clean drinking water, the ‘blue gold’ of the future. Main figure Ton Koens, the creative brain of an ingenious water unit, goes to the extreme to accomplish... 

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‘People are not money-making machines’

zaterdag, juli 9, 2011

A capitalist economy is inadequate. So says Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredits. In the sober headquarters of his Grameen Bank in Dhaka, the Bengali winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize argues passionately for ‘social business practices’ and the ‘recycling’ of money. “Doing business is only about making as much profit as possible. But people are not money-making machines.” More and more businesses in the West are attracted to socially responsible business practices, doing business ‘properly’;... 

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Himba, the red people of Namibia

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In spite of the marching globalization, there are still populations who succeed in living their life according to ancient traditions. Such as the Himba people, an indigenous tribe who predominantly live in the dry ‘Kaokoveld’ in north-western Namibia. For 1We Unlimited, photographers Geurt Besselink and Mirjam Langelaar spent one day with these red people of Namibia. As we enter the kraal, a young woman watches us suspiciously and then she continues her work. She crushes... Read More

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Water & Rubbish

Six guys invent solution to water problem

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Six guys. One dream: per year one million people in Africa provided with clean drinking water. It looks like an exciting boys adventure, but for the six Dutch entrepreneurs it is deadly serious. “Water is life”, says Ton Koens, Chief Technical Officer of Multi Purpose Industries (MPI). “Without safe drinking water a child can’t grow [...]

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Fascinating Bangladesh

Former top model Bibi Russell had a dream

Former top-5

Her hand woven yellow sari makes her look like a real ‘Bengali girl’. It is a phrase she uses several times. She must be halfway into her fifties right now, but her age doesn’t seem to affect her. Former top model Bibi Russell is still a beauty and now in the second prime of her [...]

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Adventurous Kenya

‘Girls are the future mothers of Kenya’

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She has an untamable passion for running and a clear mission: the emancipation of African women. Top athlete Lornah Kiplagat uses her world fame and prize money to give Kenyan athletes the opportunity to develop their talent. The four times world champion wants more than ‘only’ winning gold medals. She hopes to start building the [...]

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1We-TV

1We-TV: It starts with water

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Six crazy guys, a white container and a world issue to solve. These three elements form the thrilling storyline of the TV program ‘IT STARTS WITH WATER’. In this dynamic documentary 1We-TV follows six Dutch entrepreneurs in Kenya who face the challenge to find a solution for what seems to become the largest world problem [...]

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