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"GRAMEEN IS LIKE MY MOTHER. SHE HAS GIVEN ME NEW LIFE."

"GRAMEEN IS LIKE MY MOTHER. SHE HAS GIVEN ME NEW LIFE."

By : Muhammad Yunus

Have you ever seen a bank with no telephones, no typewriters, no carpets, no loan agreements, and, mostly, run by women? Well, difficult as it is to believe, there is one: The Grameen Bank. Grameen is not noticeably ?bank-like?E But it does lend money, and it does get repaid with interest. Most of its borrowers are visited by the Bank staff in villages and, sorry to state this, borrowers who are not destitute are excluded, and so, usually, are men!

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