Cempaka Belanda: Microcredit - When suicide seems the only way out

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Microcredit - When suicide seems the only way out

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 31 December 2009 - 8:24am, by Eric Beauchemin

Seven RNW reporters fanned out across the world in recent months to interview small entrepreneurs who funded their businesses with microcredits. Their videotaped portraits will be published in this dossier on 25 January.

To whet your appetite, here's a sneak preview from India, followed by a little story on how it came about from its maker, Eric Beauchemin.

Microcredit is often portrayed as the best way to raise people out of poverty. But sometimes microcredit can backfire, as reporter Eric Beauchemin discovered in a village four hours from Kolkota, formerly known as Calcutta, in India.

One of my colleagues does the preliminary research to find a person we could interview. She keeps hearing that there are hundreds of such cases, but despite weeks of e-mailing and phoning, she doesn't get very far. So, when I pick up the baton, I decide to get in touch with an old acquaintance, Shabnam.

I met Shabnam during my first trip to India almost a decade and a half ago. She and her husband were running a project for street children in a slum in Delhi at the time. But the slum was razed, and when her husband died suddenly, she decided to head back to her village to help the poor and try and prevent more children from heading off to the big cities to live on the streets.

Microcredit backfires

Shabnam finds us a woman whose case shows how microcredit can actually backfire. She got a 60-euro microloan ten years ago which she used to buy a cow. But the cow died a year later before producing a litre of milk. Then Didi had to borrow money from a neighbour to pay for her daughter's dowry. Her debt, together with interest, now totals 475 euros, an amount she will never be able to repay on the 22 euros she earns a month at Shabnam's embroidery project. "Suicide is the only way out", she says. Both the cameraman and I are stunned.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide never pays interviewees. As most respected Dutch media we don't buy the news, we have to keep a professional distance from our subject. But in this particular case, I feel the station should make an exception. Didi's plight is so stark and hopeless that suicide does seem like a very real possibility. It would weigh heavily on my conscience if she were to take her life when we could have helped.

Financial help

I call the radio to tell them about Didi's difficulties. Financial assistance is out of the question, say the editors, because it would compromise our independence. It's an argument that I still don't really fathom. They also ask me to speak to the bank that gave Didi the microloan because they want to hear their side of the story. I try calling them, but the three managers who might be able to speak are all away. The editors are not happy, even though I tell them Didi's story is strong enough to stand on its own.

They have since seen the video and agree that it is a powerful warning about the pitfalls of microcredit. They are still discussing whether we should pay off Didi's debts: some are in favour, others are against. A few other colleagues who have seen the video have offered to make a contribution. The discussion continued, but the editor decided that Radio Netherlands Worldwide should noy pay the debt.