MUHAMMAD YUNUS• Borned on 28 June

1940 (age 73)Nationality: Chittagong, Bangladesh (then part of the British Raj)

MUHAMMAD YUNUS•  Developer of the concepts of 

microcredit & microfinance. • Loans are given to entrepreneurs 

who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. 

• In 2006 Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below. 

• Awarded the U.S.Congressional Gold Medal in 2010, and presented with it at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on 17 April 2013

Works of Muhammad Yunus

• In February 2011, Yunus together with Saskia Bruysten, Sophie Eisenmann and Hans Reitz co-founded Yunus Social Business - Global Initiatives (YSB). YSB creates and empowers social businesses to address and solve social problems around the world

Works of Muhammad Yunus

• Founder of Grameen Foundation in 1997

• A non-profit organisation to replicate microfinance model around the world

• It is to “To enable the poor, especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty”

Works of Muhammad Yunus

• Served in the United Nation(UN) Foundation• A organisation founded after world war II to

stop poverty and focus on development of countries

IMPACT OF HIS VENTURE

• Emphasizes the enormous synergies and benefits when business principles are unified with social ventures

• Help the poor and those in need and create a world without poverty

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