In the chapter 1
of “The Blue Sweater”, Jacqueline Novogratz starts the book with her past
experience. She saw the sweater she disposed when helping establish a
microfinance institution for poor women, and she figured out all people was
interconnected in some ways.
As we know, it
is a fact that the gap between the wealthy people and poor people is remarkably
huge, so the wealthy people tend to look down on the poor people because they
are just poor. I think that the problem is the system that can teach all people
how to use or adapt the banking system. According to the book, Marcelina who
was a friend of Jacqueline Novogratz said, “I’ve never walked into a bank
before” and mentioned “They don’t want to people like me in there”. It
indicates how unfairly the poor people were treated at that time.
It is a serious problem
that countries in Africa have to deal with poverty. For example, GDP per Capita
of South Africa in 1998 decreased from GDP in 1975, and normally GDP is
increasing as time goes by. I have read chapter 2 so far and I am curious how
and what the author who established a microfinance institution in 1987 felt as
I keep reading this book.
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