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DIGITAL HEALTH OFFERING FREE COVID19 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR 100,000 PEOPLE
Press Release (April 14, 2020)Another Healthcare Initiative from Digital Health (DH)DIGITAL HEALTH OFFERING FREE INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR100,000 Persons To Cover Corona Related ExpensesDHAKA, April 14: Digital Health (DH) is launching a new insurance product today to cover the individuals from coronavirus related expenses. Digital Health (DH), previously known as Telenor Health, is a Grameen social business. It is offering digital healthcare services for the last four years and h...
গ্রামীণ কমিউনিকেশানস্ কর্তৃক করোনা প্রার্দুভাবে অসহায় পরিবারের জন্য খাদ্য সহায়তা কর্মসূচি।
প্রেস রিলিজবিশ্বব্যাপি ভয়াবহ মহামারী আকারে করোনা ভাইরাস ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে। বাংলাদেশেও এর সংক্রামন প্রতিদিন বেড়েই চলেছে। সংক্রামন রোধে সরকার প্রায় ১ মাস ঢাকা সহ দেশের বিভিন্ন এলাকা লকডাউন ঘোষ...
Grameen organizations have come forward to tackle the Corona pandemic
Press Release (11 April, 2020)Grameen Telecom distributed high quality PPE (gowns), masks and food for the distressed.In order to combat the COVID 19 pandemic, the government and all private and public enterprises and institutions in the country are working relentlessly to ensure healthcare, personal safety and food security during these trying times. The Grameen group of organizations has also come forward along with others with various initiatives to tackle the challenge.With a view to ensure ...
Supply of PPE for Hospitals and Clinics
Grameen Fabrics and Fashions (GFFL) Limited has produced Personal Protective Equipment (PPE or gown) for the doctors of Grameen Eyecare Hospitals and Grameen Kalyan rural healthcare centres all around the country. The first batch of production of these gowns has already been supplied to them. GFFL produced only a limited quantity because of shortage of appropriate materials in Dhaka market to produce these gowns. GFFL is now trying to bring a larger quantity of the high quality material from Chi...
In Memory of Abed
21 December, 2019You Will Remain Our Companion ForeverMuhammad YunusAbed has left. But it is not possible to bid farewell to him. He remains with us as our companion forever. Since the Liberation War he is in the very grain of our society. There is no layer and sub-layer of our societal make up which has not been touched by Abed’s work. He is the principal architect of the massive transformation that has taken place in Bangladesh society since liberation.Abed made skillful steps to w...
Yunus in Japan: Meets Rola, Bangladeshi Japanese Super Model, Launches Yunus Yoshimoto Social Action Company, Addresses Social Tech Summit and Social Business Forum Osaka
Yunus Centre Press Release (27 November, 2019)Yunus Raises Question “Who Would Rule The World: Human Beings or Artificial Intelligence?”Japan's glamorous super model, actress, singer, TV personality, and author Rola came to meet Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in his hotel while he was on a social business tour of Japan during this month. She was accompanied by her twin brother and manager. Both are Bangladeshi Japanese, born of a Bangladeshi father. She says she misses Bangl...
Yunus in Taiwan for Social Business East Asia Conference; Addresses Celebration of 380th Anniversary of Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan
Yunus Centre Press Release (24 November, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Taiwan to attend the 2nd Social Business East Asian Conference as chief guest from 17th to 19th November 2019. During this conference, he had dialogues with the business community of Taiwan including Terry Gou, Taiwanese billionaire and Founder, Chairman of Foxconn. He is the richest person in Taiwan. Terry Gou announced to contribute USD 3 million to create a Social Business Venture Capital F...
Speaker of German Parliament meets Yunus to Discuss Social Business
Yunus Centre Press Release (November 8, 2019)President of German Parliament, Wolfgang Schäuble invited Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to have an one-on-one meeting in his office at the Bundestag, in Berlin on November 6 to discuss economic issues related to social business, poverty, microfinance, unemployment and youth.Schäuble has been a member of the Bundestag since 1972 and is the longest serving member of parliament in German history. He has been the President of the Bunde...
Tenth One Young World Summit Held in London
Yunus Centre Press Release (October 29, 2019)Yunus Urged Youth to Reversing the Environmental Degradation and Wealth ConcentrationNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Her Royal Highness Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex together on stage during the opening ceremony of the One Young World summit at the Royal Albert Hall, in London on 22 October 2019. The event is described as a “global forum for young leaders” and brings together 2,000 people from more than 190 countries. Profes...
Innovate Together to Achieve SDGs & Climate Actions Through Social Business
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 October, 2019)Call From UN High-Level Side Event on Social BusinessThe 74th UN General Assembly’s High-Level Side Event on “Social Business, Youth and Technology” was held at the United Nations Head Quarters, New York on September 26th 2019. The theme for this year’s programme was “Innovate Together for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Actions Through Social Business “.This High-Level Event on Social Busine...
Present World is on a Disaster Path
Yunus Centre Press Release (02 October, 2019) Yunus Warns Former Presidents and Prime Ministers in a Side Event During UN Week in NY On Sept 25, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the exclusive side event to the UN General Assembly on the issue of “Geopolitics in the Age of Sustainable Development” at Harvard Club and organized by Kerry Kennedy, founder and CEO of Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope, a Human Rights Foundation . Thirty former Presidents and Prime...
Report of Commission on Modern Day Slavery Launched in UN.
Yunus Centre Press Release (30 September, 2019)Co-Convenor Yunus calls for Ensuring Zero Financial Exclusion by Creating Social Business Banks for the PoorOn September 27th, Final Report of the Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking was formally released in the UN as an important UN event in New York. This Commission was set up during the UN General Assembly meeting of the previous year at the initiative of Government of Liechtenstein and joined by the Governments&nb...
US Microcredit Programme Expanding
Yunus Centre Press Release (23 September, 2019)Two More Branches Opened in California Bringing Grameen America Total to 23 in 15 US CitiesNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus inaugurated two new branches at Long Beach and Fresno, a city 225 miles north of Los Angeles. Long Beach branch is funded by East West Banks and Fresno branch is funded by the Bank of the West. Dominic Ng, founder, Chairman, and CEO of East West Bank and Andrea Jung, CEO and President, Grameen America, and the seni...
Old Roads Can Only Take Us to Old Destination - Yunus’s Message to Niti Aayog, India’s Highest Policy Think Tank
Yunus Centre Press Release (September 18, 2019)Delhi, September 16: During his two day visit to Delhi, Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus was invited to address the advisors, researchers, and senior executives of the National Institution for Transforming India, popularly known as NITI Aayog. It is the highest policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, headed by Mr Amitabh Kant, a close advisor of Prime Minister Modi of India. It provides both directional and policy inputs towards Su...
Yunus Portrait Commissioned by Vanderbilt University
Yunus Centre Press Release (13 September, 2019)Sedrick Huckaby, an American artist, visited Yunus Centre this past week to paint a portrait of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus for the Vanderbilt Trailblazers portrait series which honours members of the Vanderbilt community who broke barriers.Mr. Huckaby, a Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Arlington is famous for his use of thick, impasto paint to create murals and to produce large portraits. His work can be found on display ...