2019 Youth4SDG Asia Leadership Program at Daffodil International University

Daffodil International University (DIU) hosted 2nd edition of 2019 Youth4SDG Asia Leadership Program in Dhaka,  Bangladesh from 19 to 26 January 2019 organized by Youthink Center China and supported by Yunus Social Business Centre, DIU. 


18 talented students from 18 different universities in China and 5 participants from Bangladesh joined this week long exposure program. Under this program, the young leaders worked to create the social business plan after surveying different villages of Bangladesh under case study. The team met Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at Yunus Centre and learned his journey toward Social Business for zeroing poverty, unemployment and net carbon emissions. They also visited Grameen Bank Branch, Social Business projects to get hand on experience.



Apart from the visit they also joined different session on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Social Business. In a closing ceremony the teams presented their Social Business Plans aims at achieving SDGs through the power of social business. The ideas were reviewed by the experts.


The participants were awarded with certificates after successful completion of the program.