It’s there that she helped found Duterimbere, a Microfinance institution.
When Novogratz relays how wrong her first jaunt into Africa went with her stomping her foot at some (Albeit truly) underhanded women, saying that she was there to help, whyyyyyyyy (Whiiiiiine!) are they mistreating her so? and I just added that as fuel to my increasingly disconsolate fire.īut then! The woman does NOT give up! She remains determined to use her education and her experience as a credit analyst to assist others, notably in Africa, Rwanda to start off. Couple that with her telling of The Blue Sweater-wherein she donated a favorite sweater of hers and found it a decade later, name on the label, on a little boy in Kigali, Rwanda (But see, when she sees the sweater, she doesn’t even think of how she’s terrorizing the little boy, she simply grabs at him and yanks the sweater up so she can take a look at the label… I mean, is that dehumanizing, or what?), and I was thinking that here goes! We’re in for hoooours of a naive git, who treads on those she’s there to “help”, and we’ll probably be getting a whole lot of self-congratulatory statements thrown in there too. Author Jacqueline Novogratz narrates this herself, and suffice it to say that: She sounds reeeeeally young. Lemme just fess up here and say that I thought I was going to haaaaate this, The Blue Sweater. Really good, and somehow she makes helping others seem possible?! Written and Narrated By: Jacqueline Novogratz The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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