2. Introduction of
Social
Entrepreneur
Date of Birth: 28 June 1940
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Awards- Independence Day Award (1987)
- World Food Prize( 1994)
- Nobel Peace Prize (2006)
-Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
3. Introduction of
Social
Entrepreneur
• He had chosen to reduce poverty because
He had a feeling that very few people are
really serious about reaching the goal of
halving poverty by 2015.
• Started poverty reduction in 1974 after
witnessing the effects of the 1974
Bangladesh famine.
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4. History of Yunus’s Social Venture
• Started his works in poverty reduction by
issuing small loans to women in the village of
Jobra in 1976
• Secured various loans from different banks to
lend to the poor.
• Grameen Bank began operations fully in 1983
based on the foundation work done by Yunus.
5. Impact of the social venture
• More projects for the poor were further created
after the development of the Grameen Bank.
• Cell-phone ownership was brought to 260,000
rural poor in over 50,000 villages in March 1997.
• Inspired similar efforts in a hundred countries
throughout the developing world and even in
industrialized nations, including the United States
