بو لى دوانزه ى ئاما ده يى ئازادى كوران كركوك From USA to my DEARES STUDENTS IN KIRKUK GRADE 12 SUNISE 12 DO YOU KNOW........ ? Fulbright Alum from Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Fulbright Alumnus and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from House Speaker John Boehner (right) with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (left).Photo Credit,AFP In a ceremony in Washington, DC on April 17, 2013, Fulbright Foreign Student alumnus from Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his “efforts to combat global poverty.” With this award, Yunus joined an exclusive circle of individuals - including Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, and Mother Theresa – who have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Congressional Gold Medal. Dr. Yunus was a Fulbright Student in economics at Vanderbilt University from 1965 to 1966. As founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, he pioneered and championed the practice of microcredit and microfinance to create opportunities for the very poor. Microcredit is a system which provides small or micro-loans without collateral to individuals living in poverty. As a result, millions of Bangladeshi poor -- especially women, who make up 97 percent of the Grameen Bank’s 8 million borrowers -- have been empowered to obtain small loans, start businesses in their villages, and lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Dr. Yunus has credited his Fulbright experience for giving him an expanded sense of possibilities: "Fulbright provided me the bridge to cross. I saw how things can be done differently in a different society … I learned lessons which stood me in good stead when building up the Grameen Bank." He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. You can read an interview with Professor Muhammad Yunus on the New York Times Opinionator Blog.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 02:05:39 +0000
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