2. MUHAMMAD YUNUS
• Borned on 28 June
1940 (age 73)
Nationality: Chittagong,
Bangladesh (then part of
the British Raj)
3. 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
4. Works of Muhammad Yunus
• In February 2011, Yunus together with Saskia
Bruysten, Sophie Eisenmann and Hans Reitz cofounded Yunus Social Business - Global
Initiatives (YSB). YSB creates and empowers
social businesses to address and solve social
problems around the world
5. 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”
6. 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
7. 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