This recent master's thesis by queen's university canada's Fateh Mohammad goes into remarkable depth as to how the first 10 years of brac embedded culture of paulo freire and impact on all education programs and indeed all partnership initiatives
between 2012-2017 washington dc was a breadth of fresh air thanks to appointment to world bank of jim kim- his life - both studies and work - and pretty much all american health for the poorest leaders are inspired by franciscan values; latin americans i talked to in dc explained while the 1960s world was cheering on ameruca's moon race- latin americans were debating what on earth is it that we admire from the catholic culture that colonised us- it was the franciscan way that many nations chose- while freire was a brazilian applying franciscan views to education of the oppressed kim and others talk of
pop- preferential option poor being a movement linking many spanish speaking nations including columbia peru and the source connection with the Latin American liberation theology movement of the mid-20th century. As a developed theological principle, the option for the poor was first articulated by Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. in his landmark work, A Theology of Liberation (1971). Gutiérrez asserts that the principle is rooted in both the Old and New Testaments and claims that a preferential concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor is an essential element of the Gospel.- in turn guterrez references el salvador's oscar romero --https://ndsmcobserver.com/2014/09/gutierrez-highlights-popes-preferential-option-for-the-poor/
its the duty of any franciscan leader to serve by going and living and learning with the poor- as well as bring relevant knowhow such servant leaders observe what systems are broken/ who can they bring in to mend these systems
and first of all every time there are tech advances how to apply the advance to the poorest as a priority- this helps explain how for example brac parters have co-created the worlds largest cashless banking system www.bkash.com in terms of population of customers and trgeted previouslu unbanked with such advantages that unlike money banking all digital transaction costs are practically the same so amouts too small to save when a clerk had to collect and record the saving are now economic to process
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