Social Business
Field Staff Review meeting
The 4th review meeting for the unit managers of Grameen Trust’s Nobin Udyokta Program (NUP) was held on January 11-12, 2017 at its Head Office in Dhaka. Forty Four (44) unit managers from twenty two (22) unit offices attended the review meeting. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Abdul Hai Khan, Managing Director of Grameen Trust. Various important issues related to the promotion and implementation of Nobin Udyokta Program (NUP) were discussed during the review meeting. All Unit- In-Cha...
136th In-house Social Business Executive Design Lab of GTT (510th as per Yunus Centre) Â
Date: 19 January, 2017 Venue: Social Business Learning Centre (SBLC), Grameen Telecom Trust. Chaired by: Mr. Sultan Ahmed Bhuiyan (CFO & Board Secretary, Grameen Telecom Trust) Number of Nobin Udyokta (NU): Fifteen (15) Number of business proposals approved: Fifteen (15) Batch of Nobin Udyokta (NU): 176th...
The Grand Launching of Grameen Poshra’s e-commerce Website
The e-commerce website of Grameen Poshra was officially launched at 459th Design Lab held on Thursday, 12 January 2017. Prof. Muhammad Yunus inaugurated the launch by visiting the website and buying a product from Grameen Poshra’s e-commerce site. Ms. Parveen Mahmud, FCA (Managing Director, Grameen Telecom Trust) presided the ceremony. Ms. Lamiya Morshed (Executive Director, Yunus Centre), Mr. Sultan Ahmed Bhuiyan (CFO & Board Secretary, Grameen Telecom Trust), Mr. Jayanta Kumer Bosu (...
Yunus Joins Paris Initiatives : Press Conference of Yunus and Paris Mayor in Davos
Yunus Centre Press Release (21 January, 2017) Paris Mayor Ms Anne Hidalgo and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed a joint press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to announce the agreement signed between the City of Paris and Yunus Centre to bring social business to the city of Paris to tackle pressing social problems of the city including youth unemployment Mayor Hidalgo has put the three zeroes defined by Professor Yunus - zero poverty, zero unem...
Grameen Trust reaches 2,866 Nobin Udyoktas
Grameen Trust (GT) reaches 2,866 Nobin Udyoktas (NUs) in its 93rd Internal Social Business Design Lab (ISBDL) held on January 10, 2017. The Design Lab was chaired by Mr. Abdul Hai Khan, Managing Director of Grameen Trust where 57 proposals were presented by the potential NUs. All of proposals were approved in this lab. Total amount of equity investment approved to twenty- seven projects is Tk. 4,035,000 (USD 51,075.95). Till January 17, 2017 GT has approved 2,866 Nobin Udyokta projects wi...
Yunus Joins celebration of 200th year of Presidency University in Kolkata.
Yunus Centre Press Release (15 January, 2017) Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the Presidency University Global Education Summit on the occasion of its Bicentennial celebration on 10 January. Later he was received by the Governor of Bengal at Rajbhaban and joined him in a dinner. He was accompanied by Professor Anuradha Lohia, the Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University. Presidency University was born out of Presidency College which initially started as an i...
459th Social Business Design Lab Held
Yunus Centre Press Release (12 January, 2017) Online Platform for Grameen Poshra Launched The 459th Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 12thJanuary 2017 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium with nearly 150 national and international participants from USA, Austria, Italy, Germany and other countries. The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Special attendees include Mr Steve Hollingworth, CEO and President of Grameen Foundation, USA. Six n...
Yunus Welcomed by 25,000 tribal children in KISS, Bhubaneswar, India
Yunus Centre Press Release (11 January, 2017) Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited the Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on 9 January, 2017. KISS is a unique organization in whole of India where 25000 children from disadvantaged tribal communities from Odisha and neighboring states get modern residential school and college education .They come here as small children at pre-school level and remain here till they get a bachelor d...
Yunus addresses Tata Group CEOs and Top Executives in Bhubaneshwar : What Kind of Future We Want --Yunus
Yunus Centre Press Release (10 January, 2017)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on January 9, 2017 addressed the CEOs and top executives of some 240 Tata companies who had assembled in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India at the Tata Sustainability Conclave Conference on Future- Proof Business.During the speech Professor Yunus raised the question which future are we talking about? Should we prepare ourselves to fit ourselves into a future which was created by forces bey...
Chandigarh University Appoints Yunus as Member of its Executive Council and Confers Honorary Doctorate
Yunus Centre Press Release (09 January, 2017) Professor Yunus was invited to Chandigarh University, Punjab, India at the Convocation Ceremony of the university on January 8, 2017. He was invited by the Chancellor of the University to join its Executive Council which is the highest policy-making body of the university. Professor Yunus attended the ceremony as the convocation speaker and he was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science degree. On arrival at the university, the Vice Chan...
Professor Yunus: Life is to be creative until the last day
Yunus Centre Press Release (08 January. 2017) At the joint 90th Aniversary Symposium of Andhra University in Visakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh , and 10th Anniversary of his Nobel Peace Prize celebrated by this university, Professor Yunus spoke on how to create a social business in a creative way to solve any social problem. In his speech he took the problem of old age and emphasised ( the fact) that it is not a question of looking after the old people, but rather to fac...
Andhra University Creates Yunus Social Business Centre
Yunus Centre Press Release (07 January, 2017)Andhra University , Vishakhapatnam , India received Professor Yunus on 5 January as Chief Guest in its three day observation of the 90th anniversary of the university and the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Peace prize of Professor Yunus . On this occasion a symposium on Social Business for Sustainable development was organized . Professor Yunus gave the keynote speech in the inaugural session. Before his speech the Human Development Ministe...
Professor Yunus addresses Indian Science Congress and Challenges the Scientists to devise Technology Exclusively to Solve People's Problems
Yunus Centre Press Release (05 January, 2016) Professor Yunus addressed a plenary session of the 104th Indian Science Congress on 4 January. The huge auditorium of Sri Venkateswaran University in Tirupati , Andhra Pradesh , the venue of the congress, was full to the brim with scientists, students and others coming from all over India. Professor Yunus in his hour-long speech explained the latest progress of the social business all over the world and especially in India. He explained the finer po...
Yunus Receives Gold Medal From Modi
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 January, 2017)Indian PM Narendra Modi has awarded a gold medal to Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus while inaugurating The 104th Indian Science Congress in Triputi India on January 3, 2017. Professor Yunus received this award along with five other Nobel Laureates who were invited as the key speakers in the Congress.Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and several Union Minister as well as good number of famous Indian scientists also spo...
New Year Program on the first working day of the year 2017 at Grameen Telecom Trust
The first working day of the New Year, 2017 of Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) started with a small New Year Program organized at its Social Business Learning Centre (SBLC). The program was inaugurated with a welcome address by Ms. Parveen Mahmud FCA (Managing Director, Grameen Telecom Trust) where she expressed her joy for the successful completion of another year of the company and emphasized on team building spirit. Following was a year end video of 2016 of GTT. The program was divided into sever...