Professor Muhammad Yunus, Professor Barbara Parfitt and Professor Pamela Gillies with the top three students- from the left; Popi Rani Bhowmik, Satu Mondol and Rokeya Akter Bristy
The Story of Rokeya Akter Bristy
History before starting with GCCN: Rokeya Akt...
The first Nursing College of Grameen initiative is named as "Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing". The college has been set up with joint funding from Nike Foundation of USA and Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, U.K. The Grameen Healthcare Trust (GHT) sup...
Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit and founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has proved that poor entrepreneurs, mostly women, can advance economically with small loans. The doctor of economics made his first loan of $27 out of his pocket to several women who we...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who founded the practice of microcredit as a means to combat global poverty, visited Quinnipiac on March 6 to deliver a free community lecture, "Microcredit and Social Business for Poverty Reduction." Yunus also participated in t...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who founded the practice of microcredit as a means to combat global poverty, visited Quinnipiac on March 6 to deliver a free community lecture, "Microcredit and Social Business for Poverty Reduction." Yunus also participated in t...
Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus will deliver the lecture on "Microcredit and Social Business for Poverty Reduction" on 6 March 2013 at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA. The lecture will be streamed live to the public starting local time 7:00 pm We...
The book “গ্রামীন ব্যাংক ও মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস (২০১১, ২০১২)” edited by Shamsul Hussain is now available in the market. Prominent persons like teachers, journalists, civil society representatives, dev...
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today that they will hold a U.S. Capitol ceremony next month to p...
A former regional director of Royal Bank of Scotland has been appointed to oversee the introduction of the Grameen micro-lending system to the UK.
Kevin Cadman was chosen as chief executive by the Grameen Scotland Foundation.The original Grameen bank was founded in Ban...
Jose Ramos-Horta and Prof. Muhammad Yunus
One of the fundamental challenges of a democracy is how to ensure the voice of the majority does not trample the essential rights of the minority. In the founding of the United States this was addressed by the Bill of Rights,...
