Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank

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Global X has had many chats with Muhammad Yunus, but most of the time when the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was talking to other interesting people, such as Peter Gabriel, Pamela Hartigan, Vera Cordeiro, Rachel Payne, Sakena Yacoobi or Albina Ruiz.

Global X even met his daughter Monica Yunus, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York who sang in French just for him (and a few thousand other people): a piece from Gounod's Romé et Juliette. Her French was very good, thought Global X at that time.

At last, a few weeks ago, Global X had a chance to sit down with the Professor to have a little chat. Just the two of them (and a movie crew).

Global X, for once, was mesmerized and actually became speechless. Listen to Professor Yunus as he tells the story of the first US$27 loan in a village of Bangladesh, the loan that launched the microfinance movement. Watch him as he recalls how surprised he was that it took so little money to free village women from modern-day slavery, humiliation and torture.

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: February 5, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Author: socialedge

Length: 00:07:00
Rating: 4.78
Views: 5685

Tags: socialEdge GlobalX Skoll microfinance muhammadyunus yunus grameen bank nobel nobelprize economics peace Bangladesh

Video Comments:
letjkrule (September 10, 2008 at 4:39 am)
Professor Yununs did something amazing for the poverty people. ... so sincere and passionate.
arashjan (July 31, 2008 at 4:06 am)
He's an amazing individual
ThisBoyTV (February 15, 2008 at 9:42 am)
We have so much to learn