Jen Brea reports a quote from a banker in Mozambique:
"In one board meeting for the bank we discussed the vision/mission of the bank. (The NGO side creeping into the bank.) One member of the board was the CD of a large American NGO which has been in Mozambique for years. Folks said 'alleviate poverty' or 'eliminate poverty' and such.
I suggested, 'what about making our clients wealthy?' The reaction was immediate - no. That was not what we do. It was very interesting.
In the end, we thankfully dissuaded them of using the poverty word so that we wouldn't have to tell our clients - in our own mission statement - that they were poor.
Interesting article."
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