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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...
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...
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...
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...
Grameen Telecom carries out its responsibility towards ensuring the health and safety of doctors and healthcare workers
Press Release (16 April, 2020)It is crucial to ensure the safety of doctors and healthcare workers engaged in tackling the coronavirus. Along with the government, various private institutions and organizations are currently distributing protective gear. Since the start of the corona virus outbreak in Bangladesh, Grameen Fabrics and Fashion Ltd., financed by Grameen Telecom, has been manufacturing PPE (gown) for the safety of doctors, nurses and health care workers. Upto today, 25,000 safety gown...
Grameen Shikkha Emergency Food Distribution Program for the Extreme Poor in Mirpur Slums in Dhaka
Press Release (15 April, 2020)Grameen Shikkha (Grameen Education), one of the organizations in the Grameen family, has been conducting different development programs for the poor especially poor children and students for more than two decades. These programs include the Scholarship Management Program, Non-formal Primary Schools, Pre-primary Schools, Vocational Training Program, Early Childhood Development Program etc. and have directly benefited more than 360,000 people. One of the programs...
DIGITAL HEALTH OFFERING FREE COVID19 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR 100,000 PEOPLE
Press Release (April 14, 2020)Another Healthcare Initiative from Digital Health (DH)DIGITAL HEALTH OFFERING FREE INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR100,000 Persons To Cover Corona Related ExpensesDHAKA, April 14: Digital Health (DH) is launching a new insurance product today to cover the individuals from coronavirus related expenses. Digital Health (DH), previously known as Telenor Health, is a Grameen social business. It is offering digital healthcare services for the last four years and h...
Grameen organizations have come forward to tackle the Corona pandemic
Press Release (11 April, 2020)Grameen Telecom distributed high quality PPE (gowns), masks and food for the distressed.In order to combat the COVID 19 pandemic, the government and all private and public enterprises and institutions in the country are working relentlessly to ensure healthcare, personal safety and food security during these trying times. The Grameen group of organizations has also come forward along with others with various initiatives to tackle the challenge.With a view to ensure ...
A Letter From Professor Muhammad Yunus on Super HappYYness Festival and Beyond
03 April, 2020 Subject: Announcement of Postponement of Super HappYYness Festival and Call for Preparations For Building the Post-Corona World Dear Friend,I should have written to you much earlier; but COVID-19 has its own way of derailing everything. I am writing to you about our Super HappYYness Festival. There is no way we can hold the Festival in these dire circumstances - it is postponed until next year, same dates, same venue. I am writing to you to thank you for your a...
Gowns for Kurmitola Hospital
Grameen Fashion and Fabrics Ltd. (GFFL) today delivered the first batch of PPE (gown) to Kurmitola General Hospital. The remaining pieces, out of an order of 3,000 pieces, will be delivered in a day or two. GFFL is receiving requests from several hospitals for supplying PPE (gown). They are trying to produce them as soon as materials are available. It may be mentioned that Grameen Fashion and Fabrics Ltd. has received formal approval from DGDA of Health Ministry for use of these PPE (gown) by do...
Supply of PPE for Hospitals and Clinics
Grameen Fabrics and Fashions (GFFL) Limited has produced Personal Protective Equipment (PPE or gown) for the doctors of Grameen Eyecare Hospitals and Grameen Kalyan rural healthcare centres all around the country. The first batch of production of these gowns has already been supplied to them. GFFL produced only a limited quantity because of shortage of appropriate materials in Dhaka market to produce these gowns. GFFL is now trying to bring a larger quantity of the high quality material from Chi...
A Note on Social Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Muhammad YunusJanuary 12, 2020 This is a short note to draw your attention to the difference between Social Business, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Enterprises. In some writings I see the differences are blurred or even the terms are used interchangeably. It will be damaging to the concepts to use these terms interchangeably. I have tried to clarify this in my writings in the past. But I see that the confusion still persists. I have defined social business as a business which is ...
INTI-Yunus Social Business Centre
Malaysia Yunus Center for Social Business and Sustainability
Tirana, Albania
YSBC@AIMS Institutes
Karnataka, India
YSBC@FEP, UPM
Selangor, Malaysia YUNUS SOCIAL BUSINESS CENTRE, FEP, UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
SELANGOR, Malaysia
