But nobody could see it that way. This principle hurt so many people. Nobody cared to recognise it that way. I saw it as a caste system created by banks. None of us like a caste system in any form, anywhere.
Caste system created by the financial institutions remains unnoticed.
Nobody get horrified by it. If you don't have collateral, you are not credit-worthy you are an untouchable. Grameen Bank challenged this caste system. I felt that access to money is essential to move out of poverty, to unfold one's own potential, to become an active economic agent, to establish one's own human dignity. All they can come up with are safety-net programmes.