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Yunus Centre Website Launched

Dear Friend,
Welcome to the Yunus Centre website.

The Yunus Centre is dedicated to work towards creating a poverty free world. We invite you to join us, in whatever capacity you can, to make our dream come true. You can give your ideas, and suggestions, devote your time as a volunteer, as an intern, undertake action programs, and encourage your friends to join us in our mission. I am absolutely sure we can change the world, if we want it seriously enough, and work for it.

In concrete terms, the Yunus Centre will be the hub of all our global activities around social businesses, including microcredit, healthcare and environment. This website is created to inter-connect all the initiatives taken in various countries within various structural formats, such as, Institutes for Social Business, Grameen Creative Labs, Yunus Centres, Yunus Chairs, Social Business Chairs, Social Action Groups, Social Business Design Centres, Social Business Funds, microcredit initiatives, healthcare initiatives, environmental initiatives, etc. Ultimate goal of the Yunus Centre will be to create poverty museums, after brining an end to poverty in each area, in villages, cities, counties, provinces, and countries, especially engaging the youth of the villages, cities, and countries.

I invite you to join us in this exciting journey. If we take the first step today, and continue to take more steps, we'll get there.

Let's take the first step. Please sign up (www.yunuscentre.org).

Muhammad Yunus

Principles of Social Business By Professor Muhammad Yunus

  1. Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society; not profit maximization

  2. Financial and economic sustainability

  3. Investors get back their investment amount only. No dividend is given beyond investment money

  4. When investment amount is paid back, company profit stays with the company for expansion and improvement

  5. Environmentally conscious

  6. Workforce gets market wage with better working conditions

  7. ...do it with joy