thank you dhaka for leading the human race to poverty museums
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Dhaka En Route to Every Sustainability
Capital
Club of Dhaka and LondonCreativeLabs.com would love to hear (RSVP info @worldcitizen.tv ) of highlights of the year of 2009 from Dhaka's youth's viewpoints especially
-from Obama's Presidential Award to Dr Yunus, to the Queen of England's knighthood to Sir Fazle Abed to the visits by British Ministers celebrating Dhaka youth as climate champions to the opening of Grameen Veolia and the ever increasing global brand collaboration partnerships celebrating Dhaka Home of Microcredit & Social Business as open system designs of the world's most purposeful and sustainable organisations
Past Washington DC Aug09- Presidential
Change Leaders party
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next Joy of LIfe celebration with Dr Yunus- Berlin November 2009- 20th fall of wall - host http://grameencl.com/
.Provisional Yunus centre for development celebration Glasgow Feb 2010- host Glasgow Caledonian Uni
Partners of Yunus
Ideas/Questions
always welcome info@worldcitizen.tv - washington dc bureau usa 301 881 1655 - maps of FC 1
visions for 2015 game - cross out vision you disagree with; add in your own vision; send to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk for sharing with friends if dhaka
End Poverty’s Connecting Millennium Heroes Network Goals by 2015
5 Bangladesh will be on top of the premier league of green and citizens around the world will be wanting
to celebrate their team/nation getting into premier league epicenter=global brand ceo
creative labs & Bangladesh 15 company consortium
4 Relegate universities
to 2nd division unless they host social business curriculum – Bangladesh’s missing system curriculum-what
entrepreneurial revolution’s hunted for since 1976 epicentre=microeconomists ofScottish and Bangladeshi schools epicenter= glasgow&yunusdevcentres
7 It will be normal for the world’s
greatest sporting events to co-celebrate league tables’ of humanity’s sustainability progress ; public media like
the bbc and DD have a key role in that –epicenter
=global brand ceo club creative labs
1 Aid’s level
playing field – half to be social business up by 2015 – how else will any of eg obama’s or other clinton
initiative goals be compounded
9 YOU & US –exponentially sustainable partnerships of the globe’s
most resourced organisational systems and grassroots nets serving most life critical needs
3 there wont be a place
on earth where innovators are not given free access to typing in proven micro ideas on ending poverty-
epicentre Grameen Solutions&Bangladesh’s www perhaps with 2 neighboring giants first
8
there will be an unstoppable momentum behind change education from being examined to-down to empowering creative flow in every
being community up
2 If in 2015 microcredit Kenya summit is seen to have been humanity’s best ever what needs to happen
and connect in Kenya MCS April 2010
epicenter=
MCS Sam
6 there will be a portal with a blueprint of how any nation can have an economical rural health
-epicenter
dhaka health city’s free rural university
Dhaka, 3 Jan. 2008
The first question I asked Dr Yunus was; if microcreditsummit is humanity's greatest network, how do you see Future Capitalism networks? He said why not 10 times more important. Please ask anyone inspired by what 20 million Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs' social
business innovations can share with the world to identify 9 other MICROservices for and by humanity that
7 billion people want to discuss as much as credit?
Microcreditsummit, If
you only ever populate one sustainability network in your life try http://microcreditsummit.org/ first, Princeton, USA
16 Professor Zasheem
Centre for
development of microeconomics, sustainability exponetials and open source certification of social business cases, Glasgow
Caledonian Uni, Gklasgiow, Scotland
BBC polar/solar explorer- supporter of microgreen - on leadership panel of ashden awards with price charles
& lord sainsbury's elder daughter sarah, cumbria, england
Micro health - convenor of world congress, leading future capitalism partnerships connector in health, founding
director of bank of Grameen America, Outer Boston
Bangladesh and China - connections being made by grameen
In preparation , venture between Jack Ma Ali Baba (china's ebay) and Grameen
2 Grameen Bank replications authorised in china: Vice President of China Xi Jinping met Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at his office at the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing on October 30, 2009. They discussed the launching of two Grameen operated microcredit companies named as Songpan-Aba
Grameen Micro-Credit Co., Ltd in the province of Sichuan and Grameen (Shangdu) Micro-Credit Co., Ltd in the province of Inner
Mongolia. The two microcredit companies are at the final stage of being approved by the regulatory authority. Both will be
launched in the first quarter of 2010. Chinese Government invited Professor Yunus to set up these two companies.
In March of 2009 Microcapital reported on a project, called the Grameen-CPAD-Danone Micro-Credit Initiative, to bring
micro credit to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake that devastated the province in southwest China as well as to impoverished
people of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Hebbei Province [1]. The project is a joint operation between Grameen
Trust [2], which aims to support microfinance activities around the world, Danone [3], the world’s biggest producer
of fresh dairy products, and The Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (CPAD) [4], which implements policies
and projects for economic development in poor areas of China. Danone funded the initiative by providing a donation of USD
2.9 million, according to an article in China Daily, while Grameen Trust has provide technical assistance and CPAD has provided
policy guidance [4,5]. In addition to these groups, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), whose goals is poverty
reduction through various means, has been implementing the project on the ground [5,6].
The initiative was formally
launched in March of 2009 and, as of August 31, 2009, has provided over USD 2.3 million in loans aimed at “poor farmers
and people affected by the earthquake so that they can earn a living and improve their living standards” [5]. Six cities
and counties, in and out of the Sichuan region, have been targeted by the program: “Mianzhu and Shifang cities in the
quake zone, Kulun County in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Wuyi, Wanquan and Pingquan counties in Hebei Province”
[5].In Mianzhu alone, over USD 870,000 in loans has helped 338 farmers and allowed 298 families to rebuild their homes, according
to Liu Dongwen, CFPA deputy executive director [5]. Liu has set the goal of providing loans totaling over USD 24.6 in the
next three years [5].
Li Jiaying, customer manager of Mianzhu Branch Office of CFPA Microfinance Management Co Ltd,
a microfinance institution involved with the project, cites the ease of loan application and a low interest rate as part of
the program’s success in reaching the poor and those affected by the earthquake. “He or she only needs to find
a warrantor [to obtain a loan]” says Li [5]. “After one files the application, he or she can get the loan between
three and seven days. “Another reason [for the program’s popularity],” says Li, “is [that] the interest
cost for borrowing a loan is only 8 percent” [5].
Bangladesh and Japan Trade Exchanges hosted by Grameen
Kyushu University Technology Lab Kyushu Univerity Mayor Twin City with Social Business Uniqlo partnership with
Grameen - may move all manufacturing to Bangladesh if costs of manufacture in China keep increasing
Announcement of "super bean" much loved in Japan grows better in Bangaldeshi soil; joint ventire starting with Grameen- Japan's
leading agro-company Yukiguni Maitake Co. (YMC), Ltd today signed a joint venture agreement with Grameen Krishi Foundation
(GKF) for establishing a new social business in the field of agriculture. The joint venture aims to produce high quality mung
beans in Bangladesh for both domestic consumption and export to Japan
Possibility of JICA & Grameen venture
continuing reltionship with Rikkyo University
Yunus visit to Japanese Emperor family
Half
of delegates to Social Business Day in Dhaka 2010 were from Japan: Hiromi Inayoshi, Brand Inc , Creative Director Hiroko Kawahara, NGO Earth Yukihro Nitta UNIQLO CSR Director Eiko Sherba UNIQLO Ashir Ahmed, Kyushu Uni and
Grameen Tech Lab Kazuo Ogata, Kyushu University Professor Takuzo Ohsugi. Kyushu Uni, Research Fellow
Dr Yunus is forming partnerships
with 12 different types of organisational typologies and leaderships gravities - these being the university partners to date. The aim is to leverage his world stage connections that launched to new levels of trust multipication with the nobel prize
and the world's first global social business partnership Grameen Danone during a hectic 12 month period 2005/2006.
My understanding is that 3 webs (YC above and GSB and YF) edited out of Dhaka carry the latest news; when I see something important to connect round I will try and return here with
a bookmark
This is one of the short youtubes I made of the meeting of the first 100 alumni
of Global Grameen that was convened by yunus corporate supporter volkswagen during the week Yunus was in germany celebrating
the 20th fall of the wall in november
although I have personally invited over 50 people to join meetings
with dr yunus in new york, london and dhaka during 2 years of moderating 1000 bookclub and dvd 10000 , it seems that the sustainability stories of SB that we could be talking about most are only being clubbed out of london and dc by media, mediation and young people I know well and paris and wiesbaden; if you feel that your city could do more
with social business bookclub stories, I will be starting the next 1000 bookclub around yunus neew book spring 2010; so now
is a good time to start swapping stories of what sustainabilty SB compasses you most want to help co-navigate
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
DC 301 881 1655
301 881 1655 - skype isabellawm - family foundation
updated news and contacts from my last visit to dhaka
1
Kazi Islam has moved from leading grameen solutions in house at grameen bank to leading a division in bangladesh's biggest
compny - at grameen phone IT he seems to specialising on areas of egovernment that will indirectly help the poor
and earn trust with the government since some of the more revolutionary tech inter-nation projects need governments approval ;
both yunus and kazi confirmed yunus wanted this move
2 we met abser kamal now acting director of grameen shakti
; whilst not as flamboyant as dipal he's deeply experienced having begun in grameen fisheries decades go and appears
to be doubling solar units every 15 months or so - eg from 300000 units end 2009 to 500000 end 2010 ; jonathan has multiple
copies of the new gramen brochure and I have a new slide kit if you want it
3 grameen danone is now making
profits just - and decision has been made to start a second factory; this one may be just under double size of first
one and nearer dhaka; danone communities sb fund is starting to fund a second social business in bangladesh but I think they
maybe said this wasnt danone related; I extremely briefly met someone from interactis which seems to be another consultant
within credit agricole that danone communities sb fund uses (previously I have met ideam subsidiary which stuctures unit
funds); interactis is one for parisians to provide more detail on in due course
4 yunus is welcoming otto's
ceo next week to break ground on the otto factory; this will be in the grameen social business industrial park (sarabo union,
kashimpiur, gazipur) which includes
OTTO
Grameen Fabrics & Fashions
Grameen BSF Mosquito
nets
Grameen Fibreglass
Grameen energy sving bulg
Uniqlo- according to lamiya this japanese
outerwear supplier has decided tht its manufctirering contracts in china are getting too expensive and may move all manufctiring
over next fw years to bangaldesh
5 another example of trade with japan is that there is some type of beasnprout
which the japanese love but which bangladesh has better soil for - this is becoming a new grameen venture
6
the grameen nursing college is expected to scale up with trainers coming from as many as 4 universities - glasgow cal is expected
to be joined by mcgill emory and PennU
9 at a good moment sir fazle abed shook hands with mostofa and I ; mostofa has been promised an interview
with sir fazle; sadly BRAC'S chief operations director Brother Alum died suddenly age 61
