Vivvo CMS 4.1 PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/ &copy;2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. PRI: Public Radio International http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=rss_682409203.gif http://www.pri.org/ Pakistani man turns dust into treasure http://www.pri.org/stories/business/social-entrepreneurs/pakistani-man-turns-dust-into-treasure-12571.html Social Entrepreneurship Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:30:00 -0600 Afsiroon Naqas scrapes dirt off the ground of the Rawalpindi, Pakistan, market. He&#039;s not trying to clean the place up, but rather to find little bits of gold that through a little bit of alchemy he can turn into $8 of gold — which he uses to feed his family. Bikram Das Social Entrepreneurship Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:23:39 -0600 This story has striking similarity to one of the youtube videos from the BBC titled Welcome to India where a boy from kolkata is shown doing the same thing and much more to raise himself in the value chain!<br /> <br /> A not rare story from the south asain sub continent, but opens our eyes to the breadth that one has to do to earn a livelihood! PRI: Public Radio International