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At Arbor Assets, we've been lucky to partner with ARSAGRO for over 10 years now. Headquartered in Danli, ARSAGRO is located just a few blocks away from the Danli Federal Prison of Honduras.

Check out this compelling episode of "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" for an interesting walk through one of Honduras's most difficult corners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXgKr9d1Vk

A Long Walk Through Danli Prison - Arbor Assets At Arbor Assets, we’ve been lucky to partner with ARSAGRO for over 10 years now. Headquartered in Danli, ARSAGRO is just a few blocks away from the Danli Federal Prison of Honduras. Check out this compelling video for an interesting walk through one of the world’s more difficult prisons.  

Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors.

Our organization, Arbor Assets, has based numerous past programs on the Yunus/Grameen approach.

Check out this TED Talk where Prof. Yunus discusses the history of micro-lending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UCuWxWiMaQ

Muhammad Yunus Discusses the History of Micro-lending - Arbor Assets Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other....

Where did Covid-19 come from? Chinese wet-markets are an easy scapegoat, but that doesn't make sense - there are wet-markets all over the world, including the U.S. It is easiest to understand the current pandemic in the context of infectious disease history. And one thing stands out very clear: these diseases come from animals.

Sometimes these animals are wild and by taking them in, ultimately to breed and/or butcher them, we take on their diseases as well. Examples of this include the civet cat which gave us SARS, the chimpanzee which gave us HIV, as well as bats which gave us MERS, Ebola, and apparently, Covid-19.

And sometimes these diseases take off in domesticated animal populations, and then make the leap over to their human caretakers. Examples here include cows and sheep (which gave us measles), pigs (H1N1/swine flu and whooping cough), camels (small pox), chickens (typhoid fever), ducks (the flu), as well as horses (which gave us the common cold).

So the problem here obviously isn't the much-demonized Chinese wet-markets. Rather, the problem is obviously our relationship to the animal world. The problem is putting animals into densely packed areas. Slaughtering these animals then very much compounds the problem.

The only real solution to this is for the wider propagation of vegetarian diets. Check out this video from Hench Herbivore as he discusses this unfortunate and sad march of animal-introduced infectious diseases and the best ways for us to overcome these challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYE3x-k7YQ

Vegetarian Lifestyle Best Protection from Infectious Diseases - Arbor Assets Where did Covid-19 come from? Chinese wet-markets are an easy scapegoat, but that doesn’t make sense – there are wet-markets all over the world, including the U.S. It is easiest to understand the current pandemic in the context of infectious disease history. And one thing stands out very clear: ...