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Further postponement "Place Based Sustainability, Ethics and Spirituality. Call for a new economy serving life".
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Dear Conference Participants,We regret to inform you that due to the challenges associated with the COVID-19 outbreak and the sanitary situation in most countries in the world we have decided to further postpone the SPES Annual Conference 2020 which was due to take place at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy), on 14 - 16 September 2019. Therefore we announce that the SPES Annual Conference will be held in the same location, Urbino, on May, 20-22nd, 2021.We took...
8 more Hospitals in Dhaka engaged in Corona treatment receive healthcare equipment from Grameen Telecom
Press Release - Grameen telecom (22 May 2020)Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Bangladesh started, Grameen Fabrics and Fashions Ltd has been making PPE gowns to protect doctors, nurses and health workers with financing from Grameen Telecom. Grameen Telecom has also put together sets of imported KN-95 masks, hand gloves and protective goggles and distributed those free of cost to selected hospitals. Grameen Telecom continues with its efforts, with its limited capacity, to ensure the protection...
Digital Healthcare Solutions complementing 20,000 Frontline Health Hero’s with Free Corona Insurance
Press Release - Digital Healthcare Solutions (20 May 2020)Acknowledging the Health Hero’s fight against COVID19, empowering Community Health WorkersMay 20, 2020: Digital Healthcare Solutions stands in solidarity with all healthcare workers across the country who are on the front line in the fight to contain the current coronavirus epidemic. Community Health Workers (CHW) are containing and treating Covid-19 patients across the country. Even in this crisis, they need to go out for a bigger ...
Grameen Telecom Provides Healthcare Equipment to Hospitals Engaged in Corona Treatment in 7 Divisional Cities outside Dhaka
Gramen Telecom - Press Release (16 May 2020)It continues to be imperative to ensure the protection of doctors, nurses and other health workers engaged in providing healthcare services to tackle the coronavirus. To this end both the government and various non-government organizations have been providing protective gear for the frontline workers.Since the outbreak of the corona virus in Bangladesh, Grameen Fabrics and Fashions Ltd has been producing PPE gowns for doctors, nurses and health workers...
Grameen Telecom Provides Masks and PPEs to the Police, Army and RAB
Press Release (13 May, 2020)Grameen organizations have come forward with various programs to tackle the pandemic Covid-19 across Bangladesh since the start of the crisis. It is imperative to secure the protection of the Police, Army and Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) members, who have been working tirelessly to ensure the safety of life and property of the people in this emergency situation to discourage people from leaving their homes unnecessarily, to raise health awareness and to distribute rel...
One Million Free Non-Medical Face Masks Provided by Grameen Telecom
Press Release - Grameen Telecom (03 May 2020) Grameen Telecom will provide 1 million cloth masks, free of cost, to underprivileged people who are unable to afford masks. 72,000 pieces of masks have already been distributed through various organizations so far. According to various international research and announcements by the Health Ministry coronavirus transmission can be significantly reduced by using masks made of cloth, especially those with knit fabrics. Grameen Telecom has tak...
খাদ্য সহায়তা কর্মসূচী নিয়ে দুঃস্থ ও অসহায় পরিবারের পাশে গ্রামীণ মৎস্য ও পশুসম্পদ ফাউন্ডেশান ।
প্রেস রিলিজ - গ্রামীণ মৎস্য ও পশুসম্পদ ফাউন্ডেশান (02 May 2020)করোনা ভাইরাসের প্রতিরোধ কার্যক্রমে শিল্প- কারখানা, দোকান পাট, শপিং মল, যোগাযোগ ব্যবস্থা বন্ধ থাকায় গ্রামীণ অর্থনীতি আজ চরম বির্পযয়ের ...
Mourning the Loss of National Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury
28 April 2020I never imagined that I would wake from sleep to hear such terrible news. The suddenness and magnitude of this bad news shook me deeply. Jamilur Reza Choudhury has been my friend for a long, long time. He has always been deeply involved in all my activities. Just today, he was to preside over our advisory committee telephone meeting at midday. We had been preparing for that since yesterday. Today, he is no more.Jamilur Reza Choudhury was an extraordinary person. He had the ability t...
জাতীয় অধ্যাপক ড. জামিলুর রেজা চৌধুরীর মৃত্যুতে শোক জানিয়েছেন শান্তিতে নোবেল বিজয়ী প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস।
২৮ এপ্রিল, ২০২০ঘুম থেকে উঠে এরকম একটা মহা দুঃসংবাদ পাবো চিন্তাই করিনি। এই দুঃসংবাদের আকস্মিকতায় এবং গুরুত্বে আমি সম্পূর্ণ নিথর। জামিলুর রেজা চৌধুরী আমার দীর্ঘদিনের বন্ধু। তিনি আমার কর্মক...
করোনা সংকটে ৩০০ দুঃস্থ পরিবারকে খাদ্য সহয়তা প্রদানে গ্রামীণ শক্তি সামাজিক ব্যবসা লিঃ-এর কর্মসূচি গ্রহণ
প্রেস রিলিজকরোনা ভাইরাস সৃষ্ট সংকট মোকাবেলায় গৃহীত লক-ডাউন অবস্থার কারণে দেশের সাধারণ শ্রমজীবি ও প্রান্তিক জনগোষ্ঠীর আয়-রোজগার বন্ধ হয়ে যাওয়ায় এসকল দুঃস্থ মানুষ খাদ্যাভাবে জীবন যাপন করছ...
Grameen Shakti provides food support to 1750 underprivileged families
Press Release - Grameen Shakti - 24 April 2020Due to lock-down measures are taken to tackle the Coronavirus crisis, underprivileged low-income people have lost their means of livelihood and are facing a terrible food crisis. Grameen Shakti head office staff has taken an initiative to urgently start a Food Distribution Program to provide relief aid to these families to fulfill humanitarian responsibility. Grameen Shakti has started the Food Distribution Program in 10 districts of the ...
Grameen Healthcare Services Ltd. Undertakes “Food Distribution Program’’ Due Coronavirus Crisis in Bangladesh
Press Release - Grameen Healthcare Services Limited (GHS) (April 22, 2020)Grameen Healthcare Services Limited (GHS) is a social business organization. For more than one decade GHS has been providing healthcare services to the poor and downtrodden population in far reaching locations of the country. GHS is operating four eye hospitals in four different districts – Bogura, Barishal, Thakurgaon, and Satkhira. The aim of these hospitals is to provide modern eye care treatment to underprivilege...
নভেল করোনার (কোভিড-১৯) প্রাদুর্ভাবে গ্রামীণ ট্রাস্ট কর্তৃক দুস্থ পরিবারে ‘খাদ্য-সহায়তা প্রদান কর্মসূচি’ গ্রহণ
প্রেস রিলিজ -গ্রামীণ ট্রাস্ট (এপ্রিল ২০, ২০২০)নভেল করোনার প্রার্দুভাবে আজ বাংলাদেশসহ সমগ্র বিশ্ব স্থবির হয়ে আছে। বিশ্বের অন্যান্য দেশের ন্যায় বাংলাদেশেও এর সংক্রমণ প্রতিদিন বেড়েই চলছে। এ ...
GCCN launched an online E-learning portal
Grameen Caledonian College suspended its academic activities on its premises since March 17 due to Covid 19 following government directive. To ensure students’ academic study continues, GCCN launched an online E-learning portal on 1 April 2020. The GCCN faculty members are teaching 3 different courses - BSc in Nursing, Diploma in Nursing and BSc in Nursing (Post Basic) with a total of 70 subjects online. This portal is interactive and tracks every student’s academic progress, in...
Grameen Kalyan Offers Healthcare Services And Food Support during Pandemic
Press Release - Grameen Kalyan (18 April, 2020)Grameen Kalyan (GK), one of the many Grameen organizations, provides primary healthcare services to almost 8 million underprivileged people through its 138 community-based healthcare centres in various regions of Bangladesh. Grameen Kalyan also provides emergency healthcare, relief support and rehabilitation during various natural calamities such as floods, cyclones and storms as a part of its Disaster Management Program.During the Coronavirus pande...