Expanding Dr. Yunus' Sphere of Influence » Bangladesh

Grameen, Adidas to make low-cost shoes

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:55:46 +0000

Another joint venture, comparable to the French company Danone, demonstrates how it is possible for business to be social!

Here is the article in the Daily Stary.

Yunus calls for standardised interest rates

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:12:46 +0000

This article in the Daily Star in Bangladesh is the result of a conference of microfinance institutions.

To call for standardised interest rates across all microfinance institutions would, of course, take all the steam out of the criticism that has arisen. But it’s always easier to criticise than to create!

Cherie Blair discusses health issues with Yunus

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:38:44 +0000

Cherie Blair, wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, called on Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, and discussed healthcare programmes of Grameen Kalyan and Grameen Healthcare Trust yesterday.

During the meeting at the Grameen Headquarters at Mirpur in the city, they also discussed Grameen’s nursing colleges, health management centres, eye care hospitals, thalassemia initiative and overall health issues pertaining to women, says a press release.

The Daily Star, January 12, 2010

Grameen Healthcare teams up with US university

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:51:55 +0000

Another article from the Daily Star Dhaka that reports about Professor Yunus’ remarkable activities.

Prof Yunus for recognition of photography as branch of art

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:53:28 +0000

I find the different kinds of battles that Prof Yunus fights most amazing! As he said at our event in February 2008: the biggest hurdles are people’s minds…

And thus he inaugurated a photography exhibition at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy and Institute of Photography.

Here is the article in The Daily Star.

Microcredit one bright spot in the recession

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:47:44 +0000

The Daily Star in Bangladesh reports regularly on the achievements of Dr. Muhammad Yunus and / or Grameen.

This article is a review that took place at the launch of the Bangladesh Microfinance Statistics for 2007.

Bangladesh achieves remarkable success in many fields

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:05:03 +0000

This article is a summary of a lecture Dr. Yunus gave to a voluntary organisation at Manhattan in New York.

Yunus briefs Hillary about healthcare plans

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:50:47 +0000

Here’s the story from the Daily Star about Dr. Yunus’ 90-minute meeting with Hillary Clinton on Thursday, April 16.

Yunus for bailout package for poor

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:07:53 +0000

The author of this article in the Daily Star points out the conspicuous absence of the business sector, with government officials looking for ideas that were not there – in Davos…

Dr. Yunus’ presence and talks were thus a ‘call of conscience that cannot be trivialised’…

How Water Transformed a Bangladeshi Village

Sabine Kurjo McNeill — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:49:10 +0000

When you read this FT story, you will appreciate why Dr. Yunus says that development agencies have failed the developing countries.

But there’s always hope and there are ‘sensible people’ who, despite all the madness that capitalism has created and continued to worsen, can make a difference. It depends which ethical side we’re on, it seems…