Social Business
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 ...
New FAO Chief Discusses Social Business with Yunus
Yunus Centre Press Release (07 September 2918)September 04, 2019, RomeThe newly elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and former deputy agricultural minister of China Mr. Qu Dongyu invited Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to have a discussion on FAO-Yunus joint social business project in Central African republic at FAO headquarters in Rome on September 04, 2019. FAO-Yunus joint social business project in...
Vatican awards Yunus with the “Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis”
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 September, 2019)September 3rd 2019The Vatican honoured Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’, on 3rd September 2019 at the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi, Italy. The award aims to honor those who work towards promoting peace and harmony. Muhammad Yunus was a guest in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco of Assisi (Umbria) where he held a Lectio Magistralis and received the Lamp of Peace award.Nobel Peace Pr...
Social Business Week in China : Shanghai to Launch Grameen Programme and Create a Social Business Institute
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 August, 2019)On August 1, the last day of Social Business Week in China Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus spent a busy day in Shanghai attending several events and meetings. In the morning he visited Cao Yang No 2 High School, one of the top public high school in the country. Principal of the school Mr Wang Yang who is a nationally celebrated High School Principal is also the Director of the National Institute of Social Practice in Senior High, mi...
Why Social Business ?
In 1976, when I began the Grameen Bank project, I was merely trying to help a handful of people in Jobra, a small village next to Chittagong University where I was teaching. I had found that the poor men and women there remained slaves to the local money-lenders for tiny amounts of money to support their income generating activities. It was then that I decided to lend 42 people an amount $27 dollars of my own money to free themselves from the loan sharks. I was astounded to find that not on...
City of Ningbo Celebrates Social Business Week in China
Yunus Centre Press Release (01 August, 2019)As a part of Social Business Week of China Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived Ningbo a port city in the eastern coast of China. On 31 July, his day began with meeting the students of Huamao English School, a leading private school in the city. Yunus addressed the students and invited them to imagine the world they would like to live in. This is the time to create that world in their minds so that they can work to make it a reality. &...
Yunus in China: Emphasizes Financial Inclusion Must Exclude All Predatory Financing like Loan Sharking
Press ReleaseNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is in China from July 27 to August 1st 2019. On his second leg of the trip, the Caixin Media Group organized a breakfast meeting by where the Nobel Laureate addressed the topic of financial inclusion. Around 70 CEOs and founders of financial institutions, university professors, high officials from the Central Bank and NGO leaders attended the event.Professor Muhammad Yunus emphasized that all financial services to the poor do not constitute fi...
Yunus Opens Grameen China Branch in Shenzhen, China
Yunus Centre Press Release (29 July, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus inaugurated the opening ceremony of Grameen China’s branch in the Futian district in Shenzhen, China on July 27, 2019. Yunus is visiting Shenzhen as a part of the Social Business Week in China.Loans were disbursed to 8 members of Grameen groups to finance income generating activities that included creating employment in the local community. This is the third branch under the collaboration between China ...
Grameen Trust (GT) has crossed 10,000 New Entrepreneurs(Nobin)
July 28, 2019Grameen Trust (GT) has crossed 10,000 New Entrepreneurs in its 626th Executive Design Lab (EDL) held on July 25, 2019 at Sharail Unit under Manikganj Anchal. The Design Lab was chaired by Mr. A. S. M. Shahidul Haque, Anchal Prodhan, Manikganj Anchal. A total of 8 project proposals were presented by the potential new entrepreneurs and all the proposals were unanimously approved during the Lab. Till July 28, 2019, GT has approved a total of 10,055 Nobin p...
Universities Are Responsible For Both Creating and Discarding Knowledge
Yunus Centre Press Release (14 July, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Spain during the first week of July 2019. He was given an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) at the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain in an elaborate special convocation ceremony on Saturday, 6th July 2019, held at the beautiful Summer Palace of the King of Spain which was converted into Cantabria University in 1936.In his acceptance speech Yunus drew the attention of the audience made o...
YUNUS AWARDED 2019 GLOBAL WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP AWARD IN BASEL SWITZERLAND
Yunus Centre Press Release (09 July, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus presented with the 2019 Global Women’s Leadership Award at The Global Summit of Women in Basel, SwitzerlandProfessor Yunus received the Award on 5th July for his internationally recognized work in poverty alleviation and economic empowerment of women globally through his pioneering work of microfinance and social business. Millions of poor women around the world found their inner capacity to take up ent...
The Taiwan Delegation Attend to 9th Social Business Day
On 27-30 June, Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan (FYSBT) set up a group to participate the 9th Social Business Day (SBD). The former premier of Taiwan, Mr. Mao, as the honor leader to leading the Taiwan Group to attend. More than 1,500 people attended the 9th SBD. Them explore topics such as food, education, human resources, and youth innovation etc., and provide social problem-solving experience.In Taiwan, The FYSBY have recommended 10 universities to establish Yunus Social Business C...
Yunus Addresses Russian Central Bank’s International Financial Congress in St Petersburg
Yunus Centre Press Release (08 July, 2019)New Law Needed to create Bank for the Poor — He Argued in the Congress.St. Petersburg, July 5Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Russia recently at the invitation of the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia to be a keynote speaker at the International Finance Conference held in the historical city of St. Petersburg. Prior to the Conference Professor Yunus invited to tape two dialogues, one between him and the First Deputy ...
77th and 78th YSBCs established in Spain at University of Murcia and University of Cantabria
University of Murcia and University of Cantabria, both located in Spain joined the Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) Network through a signing with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on the 6th of July in Santander, Spain. They will be the 77th and 78th YSBCs and bring the total number of YSBCs in Spain to 3.University of Cantabria is a public university located in Santander, Capital of the Cantabria region in Spain.The University of Murcia is the largest university in the region of Murci...
Sixth International Social Business Day Celebrated in Russia.
Yunus Centre Press Release (06 July, 2019)Moscow, 1-2 July 2019.Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia to address the 28th International Finance Conference in St Petersburg. On his way to St Petersburg an elaborate programme was organized for him in Moscow by Microfinance Association of Russia and Our Future Foundation. The focus of the programme was addressing the International Social Business Day celebration. This included a press conf...