In early 2010, Professor Barbara Parfitt, former Dean of School of Nursing
at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, came to Bangladesh to spend a year launching the Grameen Caledonian Nursing
College (GCCN). The College was opened on March 1st with a batch of 40 students, and its aim is to train girls from the families
of Grameen borrowers to become world-class nurses. Professor Parfitt has accepted the position of principal of the college.
The college has started functioning from March 1, 2010 with the first batch of 40 students. All have received student loans
from Grameen Bank to cover their expenses during their study period. As soon as they graduate from the college, they will
have guaranteed jobs with Grameen Healthcare with a monthly salary of 15,000 taka (about U.S.$215), which is a very attractive
salary for a new graduate | Youth Ambssador is one of DR Yunus' biggest wish
projects - ie a vision he would like to see happen but does not yet have resources or time priorities
to make hppen by any particular date. LOG of this biggest of all Yunus Youth networks: Concept briefing
by Yunus to Mostofa Zaman and Lamiya Morshed summer 2008 at Bali microcreditsummit -with Mostofa assigned to project development
with particular concern to evaluate how project timing might fit with debates on the banking crisis, the emerging yes we can
momentum of Obama youth, and the increasing belief by Dr Yunus that he needed youth supporters of social business system as
a design that provides the basis for community solutins to all sutanability crises. Note that as early as his Nobel Prize
speech at end of 2006, DR Yunus had surprsied the world by shifting the focus of what he wanted to spend his own time on to
the more general social business in contrast with the historically more specifically debted microcredit. In fact,
from the very beginning Grameen Bank offered its members solutions to the breadth and depth of interfacing sustinability
crises defined by 16 decsions - a 1983 survey of needs which billage mothers priotised regarding ivesting in their children's
and own development. 16D has become of the touchstone of Grameen bnk nd the culture of teh 40 comanies Yunus has created in
the ntinal Grameen brnd name prior to 2009's Global launch. Much of the media converge in big cities had got stick with thnking of microcredit as being
a specalised activity of bankers instead of an opportunity for every entrepreneur who values microeconomics. At the end
of 2007, Dr Yunus launched the first in social business series of bestselling books - Creating a world with poverty: social business the future of capitalism The
bold idea of YOuth mbassador ws to identofy and connect an lumni group of youth whose mindests about microeconomcs, system
design and commun ity buolding were as close as possible to dr Ynus values and entreprenbeurila nenergies. REsearch through
the acadmeimc year 08/09 ws conducted on what youth would need in terms of structiure if they were to network round this bottom
up idea in spite of teachings and rewards in mist big capitals stull beung bthe other system round. A devriefing was included
in part of the hostind of Fr Yunus 69th birhday hosted by Sofial Bustamante, an london job creatin community buoldeder and
system designer who had worled closely round Mostof in being the London networking connectuons to the first Yunus 1000 bookclub. Given
extrordnry global partnersing oppoirtunities it ws decided to very slowly ppoint youth ambssdors rther thn try to quicky
nite 5000 youth http://yunusforum.net/?page_id=2 Muhammad Yunus Forum has nominated the following Youth Ambassador 09/10 in
order to promote the Grameen Social Business and also to advocate for Grameen microcredit as proven-sustainable models. 1. Kieran J. Garvey; London School of Economics, London UK 2. Alex Simon; George Washington University, Washington DC USA 3. Raffaello Fossati; Alumni of Univerita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milan Italy 4. Caitlin O’Neil; Swarthmore College, San Diego USA 5. Martin Bleisteiner; East London University, London UK 6.
Clemens Hagg; Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria 7. Marisha Stock, St. Petersburg, Russia |
