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would lehman's , lynch or stearns have imploded if they listened to this 9 year old's question in jan 2008 ... try out another 20 stories the mass media misses with 10000 youth at http://yunus10000.com
1 How does a microsummit evolve- start with some of the most passionate experts in the world at practising a subject in poor communities who desperately need solutions - see if during a first year's teamwork they can agree on about 10 action learning subnetworks and get peers wanting to participate eg this is an early draft list of what microhealthsummit might invite action networkers to connect
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inquiries chris macrae info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655 ; us office 5801
nicholson lane suite 404, North Bethesda, MD 20852 USA - uk 80 queens road, suite 30, wimbledon, london sw19 8lb Mapping is a process of discovery. It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation visible, and therefore useable. Our planet needs case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system integrity’ Trust-flow is the unseen wealth to invest sustainability in. Tranpsaremtly mapped it develops a goodwill gravity tyhat invites with roleplayer in a community to multiply goodwill while sustaining their own cashflow.. Trust is not some vague, mushy, abstract warm-hearted sentiment. It is an economic powerhouse – probably just as economically and socially important as oil. The point is, there are specific things you need to do to get trust flowing, just as there are specific things you need to do to get oil flowing. And like oil trust has a dark side. Right now, the world is awash with the carbon emissions which threaten the stability and sustainability of its ecosystems. Right now, the world is also awash with the ‘carbon emission’ of trust – mistrust. Indeed it may well be that our ability to tackle the one issue – the threat of environmental catastrophe – depends on our ability to tackle the other issue: how to generate, deepen, extend and sustain trust.>br>But what is the best way of doing this? One thing is for sure. You don’t build and sustain trust via some sentimental exercise of goodwill to all and sundry. There are three very simple principles at the heart of effective trust generation. First, trust is generated via win-win relationships. It’s virtually impossible to generate or sustain trust without mutual benefit for those involved. But beneficial outcomes are not enough in themselves. For trust to be built and sustained, both sides need to signal a demonstrable commitment to finding win-win ways forward. Such a commitment may require real changes to what we say and do. Second, real ‘win-wins’ are hardly ever purely financial or material. You don’t build trust simply by walking away with more cash in your pocket. Trust works at all the dimensions and levels of human exchange. Yes, it’s about financial and material rewards. But it’s also about purpose (what people want to achieve). It’s about politics with a small ‘p’: the use and abuse of power, the crafting and application of rules of fair play. And it’s about emotions: the sometimes overwhelmingly strong emotions, both positive and negative, that are generated when people deal with other peopleWhat’s constitutes a ‘win’ – a sense of real improvement – is therefore highly specific. It depends absolutely on the details of who the parties are, what they are trying to achieve, in what context. Building trus, therefore involves discovering these specifics. Just as oil doesn’t flow out of the ground, get refined and pump its way into motor vehicles automatically and without effort, so identifying and doing what is necessary to get trust flowing requires dedicated, skilled effort. It requires a disciplined, structured process, not a vague sentiment. 3) Third, even if we do steps 1) and 2) there’s still a good chance it won’t succeed. Why? Because it ignores an invisible third factor. In the real world, purely two way bilateral relationships don’t exist. There is always a third party whose interests or outcomes are affected by what the other two parties do but who is not a party to the contract. The environment is a case in point. Producers and consumers may both benefit from buying and selling to each other – but what happens if, in doing so, they destroy the environment they both depend on? This raises a hugely important question. When two parties pursue win-wins and build mutual trust, are they doing so in a way which creates a win and builds trust for the third party at the same time? Or are they simply pushing the problems – and the mistrust – further down the line on to this third party? Building vigorous, healthy networks of trust is a different kettle of fish to ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ win-win conspiracies. It requires a Map of all the key relationships plus careful consideration of knock-on consequences. It requires a different perspective. These three simple, basic steps do not happen automatically. They need to be worked at. The territory needs to be deliberately Mapped and explored. What’s more, there are obstacles in our way – mental and practical obstacles that need to be cleared. Prevailing economic theories about ‘rational economic man’ for example, deny the need to commit to win-win outcomes. Instead, they promote supposedly ‘rational’ (i.e. narrowly selfish behaviours) which actively undermine trust The same theories insist that the only valid measure of human benefit is money, thereby excluding from consideration many of the biggest opportunities for improvement. Meanwhile many vested interests do not want to extend the circle of trust to third parties and complete networks because their positions of power depend on their ability to take advantage of the weaknesses of these third parties. That’s another job for Mapping: helping to identify and mount such obstacles. The potential benefits of doing so are unthinkably huge. They start with a simple negative: the relief that comes from when you stop banging your head against a brick wall. Mistrust breeds wasteful, wealth destroying conflict that tends to feed on itself. Anger and hatred engender anger and hatred. Simply easing or stopping the terrible waste of mistrust would transform prospects for many millions of people. We desperately need to find ways of doing this. Then there are the positive benefits. Understanding the real nature of human wealth – all those dimensions of purpose, ‘politics’ and emotion as well as money and material comfort – means we can start being human again; human in the way we think, and act. What’s more, many of these intangible benefits won’t cost a penny. They’re there for the taking, if only we puts our minds to it. But there’s more, because trust is also an economic superpower in its own right. In the pages that follow we will show conclusively that material and financial riches are also dependent on trust. In fact, we will argue the case for going one step further. We will say that material and financial riches are a by-product of trust: the visible fruits of invisible, intangible human exchange. Once you understand that sustainable cash flows are a by-product of sustainable trust flows, your understanding of what makes a successful business is transformed. Separately, each of these three fruits – reducing the waste of conflict, unleashing the potential intrinsic benefits of human exchange, and energising the sustainable creation of material wealth – are massive in their own right. Put them together and they represent a vast new continent of opportunity. As we said, this book is addressed to entrepreneurs and system innovation revolutionaries. Wherever you happen to be, whatever the change you want to make is, the principles explored in this book apply. The wish to change and the will to change are not the same as being able to change successfully. For that you need to understand your territory. You will need new Maps.  inquiries chris macrae info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655 ; us office 5801 nicholson lane
suite 404, North Bethesda, MD 20852 USA - uk 80 queens road, suite 30, wimbledon, london sw19 8lb Mapping is a process of discovery. It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation visible, and therefore useable. Our planet needs case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system integrity’ Trust-flow is the unseen wealth to invest sustainability in. Tranpsaremtly mapped it develops a goodwill gravity tyhat invites with roleplayer in a community to multiply goodwill while sustaining their own cashflow.. Trust is not some vague, mushy, abstract warm-hearted sentiment. It is an economic powerhouse – probably just as economically and socially important as oil. The point is, there are specific things you need to do to get trust flowing, just as there are specific things you need to do to get oil flowing. And like oil trust has a dark side. Right now, the world is awash with the carbon emissions which threaten the stability and sustainability of its ecosystems. Right now, the world is also awash with the ‘carbon emission’ of trust – mistrust. Indeed it may well be that our ability to tackle the one issue – the threat of environmental catastrophe – depends on our ability to tackle the other issue: how to generate, deepen, extend and sustain trust.>br>But what is the best way of doing this? One thing is for sure. You don’t build and sustain trust via some sentimental exercise of goodwill to all and sundry. There are three very simple principles at the heart of effective trust generation. First, trust is generated via win-win relationships. It’s virtually impossible to generate or sustain trust without mutual benefit for those involved. But beneficial outcomes are not enough in themselves. For trust to be built and sustained, both sides need to signal a demonstrable commitment to finding win-win ways forward. Such a commitment may require real changes to what we say and do. Second, real ‘win-wins’ are hardly ever purely financial or material. You don’t build trust simply by walking away with more cash in your pocket. Trust works at all the dimensions and levels of human exchange. Yes, it’s about financial and material rewards. But it’s also about purpose (what people want to achieve). It’s about politics with a small ‘p’: the use and abuse of power, the crafting and application of rules of fair play. And it’s about emotions: the sometimes overwhelmingly strong emotions, both positive and negative, that are generated when people deal with other peopleWhat’s constitutes a ‘win’ – a sense of real improvement – is therefore highly specific. It depends absolutely on the details of who the parties are, what they are trying to achieve, in what context. Building trus, therefore involves discovering these specifics. Just as oil doesn’t flow out of the ground, get refined and pump its way into motor vehicles automatically and without effort, so identifying and doing what is necessary to get trust flowing requires dedicated, skilled effort. It requires a disciplined, structured process, not a vague sentiment. 3) Third, even if we do steps 1) and 2) there’s still a good chance it won’t succeed. Why? Because it ignores an invisible third factor. In the real world, purely two way bilateral relationships don’t exist. There is always a third party whose interests or outcomes are affected by what the other two parties do but who is not a party to the contract. The environment is a case in point. Producers and consumers may both benefit from buying and selling to each other – but what happens if, in doing so, they destroy the environment they both depend on? This raises a hugely important question. When two parties pursue win-wins and build mutual trust, are they doing so in a way which creates a win and builds trust for the third party at the same time? Or are they simply pushing the problems – and the mistrust – further down the line on to this third party? Building vigorous, healthy networks of trust is a different kettle of fish to ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ win-win conspiracies. It requires a Map of all the key relationships plus careful consideration of knock-on consequences. It requires a different perspective. These three simple, basic steps do not happen automatically. They need to be worked at. The territory needs to be deliberately Mapped and explored. What’s more, there are obstacles in our way – mental and practical obstacles that need to be cleared. Prevailing economic theories about ‘rational economic man’ for example, deny the need to commit to win-win outcomes. Instead, they promote supposedly ‘rational’ (i.e. narrowly selfish behaviours) which actively undermine trust The same theories insist that the only valid measure of human benefit is money, thereby excluding from consideration many of the biggest opportunities for improvement. Meanwhile many vested interests do not want to extend the circle of trust to third parties and complete networks because their positions of power depend on their ability to take advantage of the weaknesses of these third parties. That’s another job for Mapping: helping to identify and mount such obstacles. The potential benefits of doing so are unthinkably huge. They start with a simple negative: the relief that comes from when you stop banging your head against a brick wall. Mistrust breeds wasteful, wealth destroying conflict that tends to feed on itself. Anger and hatred engender anger and hatred. Simply easing or stopping the terrible waste of mistrust would transform prospects for many millions of people. We desperately need to find ways of doing this. Then there are the positive benefits. Understanding the real nature of human wealth – all those dimensions of purpose, ‘politics’ and emotion as well as money and material comfort – means we can start being human again; human in the way we think, and act. What’s more, many of these intangible benefits won’t cost a penny. They’re there for the taking, if only we puts our minds to it. But there’s more, because trust is also an economic superpower in its own right. In the pages that follow we will show conclusively that material and financial riches are also dependent on trust. In fact, we will argue the case for going one step further. We will say that material and financial riches are a by-product of trust: the visible fruits of invisible, intangible human exchange. Once you understand that sustainable cash flows are a by-product of sustainable trust flows, your understanding of what makes a successful business is transformed. Separately, each of these three fruits – reducing the waste of conflict, unleashing the potential intrinsic benefits of human exchange, and energising the sustainable creation of material wealth – are massive in their own right. Put them together and they represent a vast new continent of opportunity. As we said, this book is addressed to entrepreneurs and system innovation revolutionaries. Wherever you happen to be, whatever the change you want to make is, the principles explored in this book apply. The wish to change and the will to change are not the same as being able to change successfully. For that you need to understand your territory. You will need new Maps. inquiries chris macrae info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655 ; us office 5801 nicholson lane
suite 404, North Bethesda, MD 20852 USA - uk 80 queens road, suite 30, wimbledon, london sw19 8lb Mapping is a process of discovery. It explores how to make the invisible principles and practices of real wealth creation visible, and therefore useable. Our planet needs case studies underline the search for new win-wins that build ‘system integrity’ Trust-flow is the unseen wealth to invest sustainability in. Tranpsaremtly mapped it develops a goodwill gravity tyhat invites with roleplayer in a community to multiply goodwill while sustaining their own cashflow.. Trust is not some vague, mushy, abstract warm-hearted sentiment. It is an economic powerhouse – probably just as economically and socially important as oil. The point is, there are specific things you need to do to get trust flowing, just as there are specific things you need to do to get oil flowing. And like oil trust has a dark side. Right now, the world is awash with the carbon emissions which threaten the stability and sustainability of its ecosystems. Right now, the world is also awash with the ‘carbon emission’ of trust – mistrust. Indeed it may well be that our ability to tackle the one issue – the threat of environmental catastrophe – depends on our ability to tackle the other issue: how to generate, deepen, extend and sustain trust.>br>But what is the best way of doing this? One thing is for sure. You don’t build and sustain trust via some sentimental exercise of goodwill to all and sundry. There are three very simple principles at the heart of effective trust generation. First, trust is generated via win-win relationships. It’s virtually impossible to generate or sustain trust without mutual benefit for those involved. But beneficial outcomes are not enough in themselves. For trust to be built and sustained, both sides need to signal a demonstrable commitment to finding win-win ways forward. Such a commitment may require real changes to what we say and do. Second, real ‘win-wins’ are hardly ever purely financial or material. You don’t build trust simply by walking away with more cash in your pocket. Trust works at all the dimensions and levels of human exchange. Yes, it’s about financial and material rewards. But it’s also about purpose (what people want to achieve). It’s about politics with a small ‘p’: the use and abuse of power, the crafting and application of rules of fair play. And it’s about emotions: the sometimes overwhelmingly strong emotions, both positive and negative, that are generated when people deal with other peopleWhat’s constitutes a ‘win’ – a sense of real improvement – is therefore highly specific. It depends absolutely on the details of who the parties are, what they are trying to achieve, in what context. Building trus, therefore involves discovering these specifics. Just as oil doesn’t flow out of the ground, get refined and pump its way into motor vehicles automatically and without effort, so identifying and doing what is necessary to get trust flowing requires dedicated, skilled effort. It requires a disciplined, structured process, not a vague sentiment. 3) Third, even if we do steps 1) and 2) there’s still a good chance it won’t succeed. Why? Because it ignores an invisible third factor. In the real world, purely two way bilateral relationships don’t exist. There is always a third party whose interests or outcomes are affected by what the other two parties do but who is not a party to the contract. The environment is a case in point. Producers and consumers may both benefit from buying and selling to each other – but what happens if, in doing so, they destroy the environment they both depend on? This raises a hugely important question. When two parties pursue win-wins and build mutual trust, are they doing so in a way which creates a win and builds trust for the third party at the same time? Or are they simply pushing the problems – and the mistrust – further down the line on to this third party? Building vigorous, healthy networks of trust is a different kettle of fish to ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ win-win conspiracies. It requires a Map of all the key relationships plus careful consideration of knock-on consequences. It requires a different perspective. These three simple, basic steps do not happen automatically. They need to be worked at. The territory needs to be deliberately Mapped and explored. What’s more, there are obstacles in our way – mental and practical obstacles that need to be cleared. Prevailing economic theories about ‘rational economic man’ for example, deny the need to commit to win-win outcomes. Instead, they promote supposedly ‘rational’ (i.e. narrowly selfish behaviours) which actively undermine trust The same theories insist that the only valid measure of human benefit is money, thereby excluding from consideration many of the biggest opportunities for improvement. Meanwhile many vested interests do not want to extend the circle of trust to third parties and complete networks because their positions of power depend on their ability to take advantage of the weaknesses of these third parties. That’s another job for Mapping: helping to identify and mount such obstacles. The potential benefits of doing so are unthinkably huge. They start with a simple negative: the relief that comes from when you stop banging your head against a brick wall. Mistrust breeds wasteful, wealth destroying conflict that tends to feed on itself. Anger and hatred engender anger and hatred. Simply easing or stopping the terrible waste of mistrust would transform prospects for many millions of people. We desperately need to find ways of doing this. Then there are the positive benefits. Understanding the real nature of human wealth – all those dimensions of purpose, ‘politics’ and emotion as well as money and material comfort – means we can start being human again; human in the way we think, and act. What’s more, many of these intangible benefits won’t cost a penny. They’re there for the taking, if only we puts our minds to it. But there’s more, because trust is also an economic superpower in its own right. In the pages that follow we will show conclusively that material and financial riches are also dependent on trust. In fact, we will argue the case for going one step further. We will say that material and financial riches are a by-product of trust: the visible fruits of invisible, intangible human exchange. Once you understand that sustainable cash flows are a by-product of sustainable trust flows, your understanding of what makes a successful business is transformed. Separately, each of these three fruits – reducing the waste of conflict, unleashing the potential intrinsic benefits of human exchange, and energising the sustainable creation of material wealth – are massive in their own right. Put them together and they represent a vast new continent of opportunity. As we said, this book is addressed to entrepreneurs and system innovation revolutionaries. Wherever you happen to be, whatever the change you want to make is, the principles explored in this book apply. The wish to change and the will to change are not the same as being able to change successfully. For that you need to understand your territory. You will need new Maps. Powered by Register.com |
Friday, September 26, 2008
Peter Hotez says that these worm diseases are one of the biggest bottom billion poverty traps- with the 7 most common ones being curable at 50 cents per annual treatment per person. Is this the best value investment in healthcare? http://www.stopntds.org/
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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invites citizens to nominate their top 10 ER of decade 2 suggestions from the post-Wall Street USA top 2
#1 Obama promises ending malaria by 2015 if he's elected
how can microhealthsummit Yunus10000 and social action teams help he prepare for this
suggestions from the post-Wall Street USA
top 2
#1 Obama promises ending malaria by 2015 if he's elected
how can microhealthsummit Yunus10000 and social action teams help he prepare for this
how can microhealthsummit Yunus10000 and social action teams help he prepare for this
Monday, September 22, 2008
Dear Wendy
Congratulations on the launch of http://ngocodeofconduct.org/category/signatories/ I see this as a crucial step forward in championing community-centric healthcare in poorest countries, and demanding that global NGOs collaboratively take every precaution to stop healthcare braindrain out of localities in critical need. Its fantastic also to see which NGOs are and are not signing up to this. Moreover your work http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw/hai/programming/category/introduction/ in
Cote d'Ivoire Mozambique Sudan Timor-Leste sounds brilliantly communal -do send me any info any time you want circulating
Some futures which friends and I want to map back to action as fast as possible are:
1 any future capitalism joint ventures between global corporations and the most grassrooted of networks like Grameen where the venture is governed by compounding social purpose as explained in Dr Yunus book I gave you - Lamiya Morshed is CEO of Dr Yunus secretatiat in Dhaka and arranges these partnerships with health a top focus
in Future Capitalism's first year, a partnership has been arranged with German Saudi hospital group to build a social business hospital in dhaka , arsenic-filtration of water is a partnership between Grameen and the French company Veolia, replication of the aravind eye care hospital has been funded by Dr Yunus pop group http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/news/report.php
2 in about 3 weeks yunusforum friends and I will be sending out 10000 dvds to university youth groups -each dvd has about 20 short video conversational starters on what community up sustainable "micro" approaches can do - this is the video of lamiya's invitation to youth to get connecting around health
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ59IuVRerY
do tell me if you could use some dvds with your students at university of washington in seattle
3 I also want to encourage people who believe we need to network until the world restores healthcare served and delivered in the community to start working out what 10 action tracks would need to come together if we convened http://microhealthsummit.com as a sister to the world's most succesful humanitarian action network http://microcreditsummit.org - I'd love to see the code as one of the 10 action networks
Nationally Vidar Jorgenssen of Grameen America is our main connector of community-mapped health http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=health&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=grameenamerica.com&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
Sincerely
Chris Macrae usa 301 881 1655 Bethesda MD
http://www.youtube.com/socialbusiness
copied to peter who also met you today, Mostofa who connects larges scale intercity forums http://yunusforum.net , Tom of TheGreen Children and Eric of www.physiciansforhumanrights.org whom you introduced as the social lawyer here in DC who helped draft the code; incidentally Dr Yunus has an article in the current American Bar Association Quarterly which Vidar and i would love any ideas on circulation through parallel networks of community-action and human rights http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter08/yunus_winter08.html
Sunday, September 21, 2008
the futures grameen health interns can co-networkI hope other people will reply to our survey Nina as I have no personal experience as a medical areas -vidar is it ok if I pass on the grameen america files on health you sent me in January?
However here a few big picture things that excite me, so if any of them sound like your mission tell us and we can see if we can connect nearer the source. Also in DC last week the centre for global development launched radically different foreigg aid agendas it hopes the new white house will dialogue- Ruth Levine's one on health can be downladed at http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16555
cases that I applaud over and over
JAMII BORA - AFRICA DEVELOPS 50 times cheaper health insurance
Outside of Bangladesh where from their origins in the 1970s BRAC evolved nurse in the community systems to ensure that oral rehydration saved 20% of infants while grameen was planting community banks and 60-vlager centre spaces for sharing life-critical info, the most wonderful case known to me of microcredit and micro health is jamii bora in Kenya; in
9 years it has gone from 50 beggars to over 100000 and early on in offering microcredit it found its biggest repayment problem was someone in the family falling ill with hiv or something serious and loans being spent on getting those medicines; so Jamii Bora developed health insurance at $12 a year for 5 people or 30 cents a week; it was able to do this because it found that Kenya had lots of missionary hospitals with only about 10% of beds being used; so it bought out huge contracts. Its 30 minutes long but this presentation is amazing if you want to understand jamii bora and its founder Ingrid Munro who is also a friend of Dr Yunus http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7351863330550836974
INDIA INVENTS 10 TIMES LOWER COST EYE SURGERY
Tom of http://thegreenchildren.org has made a pop video testimony to Jamii Bora as well as raising with Milla enough funds to invest in Bangladesh’s first eyecare hospital using the aravind model
Basically this offers reliable eye leaser operations to end unnecessary blindness at 10 times lower cost than any other eye hospital; its always fascinates me to understand where 10 times lower cost comes from; it seems its a lot to do with training paranurses from village women to be able to do what an eye surgeon needs but not anything wider general nursing would need; it also has basically no lawyers or administrators or any of the complexities of liability on the very occasional time when something goes unnecessarily wrong. what are the other 10 times lower cost health services
OPEN KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR DHAKA TO HAVE REGIONS NUMBER ! RURAL TEACHING HOSPITAL
Its definitely one of Dr Yunus' immediate goals to form partnerships around the world to bring knowhow to Bangladesh to start a teaching hospital in dhaka which can in particular train people to go back to villages for what they most need. I don’t know if we can help you can try surveying some American hospitals or other medical leaders to see if any of them might want to do a social business venture with Yunus
100 TIMES CHEAPER CLEAN WATER
There's also a big push going on to connect social businesses of clean water, and I believe that we need to swish to see microhealthsummit challenging microcreditsummit as humanity's most relevant network for ending poverty within 7 years; but how do we map that back?
Nina it may be best if you write a one pager not like ordinary cv's - what the health missin you passioately want to action learn or help spread -and how could that match with what's already going on in micro-worlds of community-based banking and finance beibng te 2 most vital flows to sustain communities
there's also paul farmer in haiti (who clinton used his ted.com wish to replicate in rwanda while that country's women are rising in government http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/164 ) but what confuses me is that maybe he doesn't connect with the local microcredit people or vice versa since dont seem to be in same worldwide networks; and of course the previous year's prize led to Larry Brilliant being appointed head of google.org but again Brilliant's networks and microcredits dont sem to me to be mltiplying each other as much as they could but this may simply be my ignorance
cheers
chris macrae usa 301 881 1655 http://microhealthsummit.com
From: mninaSubject: Re: nina
To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.ukHello Everyone, Yes, I will be doing an internship there in December. I am excited and I am also panicking. I want to make sure I use my time as effective as possible in the short time that I have. I started doing research on micro-credit and public health. I need to reply back with what I would like to accomplish while I am there. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if anyone can share what I should expect while there I would greatly appreciate it. I am not familiar with what all I have available there. I am trying to find a professor who can mentor me through this, but I am not having very much luck at my university. I also need to figure out housing, costs etc… I would love to hear how your trip went Mostafa. Thank you again for everything everyone. Best Regards, Nina Quoting christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>: > well done mostofa-sounds very good - it seems to me that if we can > help all sides get a deeper intern experience than the rather random > application process that most young people go through in contacting > bangladesh then citizen forum will have been doing something useful > > We may particularly want to form a social action group that starts > blueprinting what microhealthsummit could emerge as -its one of > those social action team challneges that can turn into a real summit > once one fas found the perspectives that want to come round the > table -earlier correspondence with chittagong community of medics From: Badrud Doza >
Subject: Re: Social Business Club Chittagong Re: ashoka competition entries on banking for social change - and co-creating 10000 youth network
To: chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Monday, 25 August, 2008, 8:41 PMDear Chris,
I was busy with a seminar in our hospital, it ended today.
I like your idea of Social Business Club. But before that define the status of my hospital Chittagong Mother and Child Hospital, Agrabag, Chittagong.
It started in 1979 by some volunteers as an outdoor service for children. It is transformed into a 300 bedded hospital basically for mothers and children but now other specialties are adding up to give it a shape of a general hospital ultimately to make it a 500 hundred bedded hospital. It has also added a medical college 2 years back.
It thrives partially on charity but mostly from the earning of the hospital. It maintains multi strata paying system. 30% of the patient are absolutely free both in the indoor and outdoor. It is run by a management committee elected by the life members. The management committee serves on voluntary basis and there is no dividend and all the earning are used for the hospital.
We are trying to be self sustainable. Now we have about 100 doctors in the hospital and more than 500 staffs. I am working here for the last 3 years in Pediatrics.Did you notice my professional website- http://bdoza.blogspot.com
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Young people all over the world want to be involved in some way. You know they want to do something, what can we do to contribute, what can I do? Can I come and work here? Can I participate in your replication efforts in another country.
The social business is where we will focus and Professor Yunus is now very interested in doing something big in health in Bangladesh and so we have a lot of organisations, world class organisations who want to partner with us to bring health services to the rural areas in Bangladesh you know. I guess one of the things that the Nobel Prize does is it gives this, it’s become like an international brand and everyone wants to partner. So, you know, we have all these leading multinational companies and leading research and medical institutions who want to partner with us. The plans for the healthcare are very big. Dr Yunus is thinking about creating a health city in Bangladesh, which would have a medical university, a medical college a nursing college, research centres you know, an institute for mother and child healthcare, so a range of things...
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