Building On Microcredit

Prof. Muhammad Yunus is known throughout the world as a pioneer of the microcredit concept that uses small loans made at affordable interest rates to transform the lives of impoverished people, mostly women. The founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus, and Grameen were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

He has been proposing to put a right to credit. It's also a human right so that people can create their self-employment with that money. If they can create income for themselves, they can take care of the right to food, the right to shelter much more easily than the government can ever do it.

ARTBOX builds on this Notion yet turns things in a different way. The idea is to connect the wisdom and technology of the developed nations into a system for smart villages, where the creativity of the community can flourish. ARTBOX uses the local social network in a community where everybody learns together in a team that pushes you to bring your creative power, to work, to contribute, to produce, or to design things in any way. The ARTBOX community can solve problems before the problem threatens the community.

To come back to Prof. Yunus:

“If you invest in them, there will be creative people doing things and so on. It is all the way we look at the problems. Society has to take care of you. But you can say ‘taking care is one thing that helps them to get out of.’ That is also a very important thing. We are not thinking of helping them to get out of it. As a result, we have a generational welfare problem. That is very destructive for the human being to give away their ability, to take care of themselves and to contribute to the world.”

They are the creative powers being wasted away. And that is why we designed our ARTBOX system. For detail please refer to the blog: Beethoven: his 250th birthday as a political artist!