This was a simple and local solution that worked. It empowered people to pursue their dreams. Be it establishing mills, doing farming, starting a small scale venture, the villagers of Jorba were able to live on their own and come out of poverty. This model was an inspiration to expand Grameen Banks to all over Bangladesh and to other parts of the world.
A Walk into the Villages of India
We running after modernity in the disguise of development is what is taking us away from villages and self-reliance. Our villages today are protesting for almost everything like water, minimum price on crop and livelihood.