1. Proverty - a heart for the less
fortunate
Muhammad Yunus Chris Mould

2. Muhammad Yunus
• Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker. He previously was
a professor of economics where he developed the concepts
of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor
to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen Bank received
the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic
and social development from below". Yunus himself has received several other
national and international honours.
• He was a professor of economics at Chittagong University where he developed the
concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs
too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Grameen Intel is just one of
hundreds of public and private partnerships now mediated Youth & Yunus. Yunus
showed interest in launching a political party in Bangladesh named Nagorik
Shakti (Citizen Power), but later discarded the plan.
• Yunus also serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a
public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s
historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and
implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing
problems, and broadens support for the UN.
• In March 2011, the Bangladesh government controversially fired Yunus from his
position at Grameen Bank, citing legal violations and an age limit on his
position. Yunus and Grameen Bank are appealing the decision, claiming Yunus'
removal was politically motivated.

3. History
• The third of nine children, Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a
Muslim family in the village of Bathua
• His father was a jeweler. His early childhood years were spent in the
village. In 1944, his family moved to the city of Chittagong, and he
was shifted to Lamabazar Primary School from his village school. His
mother was afflicted with psychological illness. Later, he passed the
matriculation examination from Chittagong Collegiate
School securing the 16th position among 39,000 students in East
Pakistan. During his school years, he was an active Boy Scout, and
travelled to West Pakistan and India and to Canada to
attend Jamborees. Later when Yunus was studying at Chittagong
College, he became active in cultural activities and won awards for
drama acting. In 1957, he enrolled in the Department of Economics
at Dhaka University and completed his BA in 1960 and MA in 1961.

4. History
• Following his graduation, Yunus joined the Bureau of Economics . During that time
he also set up a profitable packaging factory on the side. He was offered
a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States. He obtained his PhD in
economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States through the graduate
program in Economic Development (GPED).
• During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Yunus founded a citizen's
committee and ran the Bangladesh Information Center, with other Bangladeshis
living in the United States, to raise support for liberation. After the War, Yunus
returned to Bangladesh and was appointed to the government's Planning
Commission headed by Nurul Islam. He found the job boring and resigned to
join Chittagong University as head of the Economics department. He became
involved with poverty reduction after observing the famine of 1974, and
established a rural economic program as a research project. In order to make the
project more effective, Yunus and his associates proposed the Gram Sarkar (the
village government) programme. Introduced by then president Ziaur Rahman in
late 1970s, the Government formed 40,392 village governments (gram sarkar) as a
fourth layer of government in 2003. On 2 August 2005, in response to a petition
filed by Bangladesh Legal Aids and Services Trust (BLAST) the High Court had
declared Gram Sarkar illegal and unconstitutional.

5. Impact
• The success of the Grameen model of microfinancing has inspired
similar efforts in a hundred countries throughout the developing
world and even in industrialised nations. Many, but not all,
microcredit projects also retain its emphasis on lending specifically
to women. More than 94% of Grameen loans have gone to women,
who suffer disproportionately from poverty and who are more
likely than men to devote their earnings to their families. For his
work with the Grameen Bank, Yunus was named an Ashoka:
Innovators for the Public Global Academy Member. Through
Grameen Bank, Rashidul Bari claims that Yunus demonstrated
how Grameen Social Business Model can harness the
entrepreneurial spirit to empower poor women and alleviate their
poverty. One of the conclusions of Yunus' concepts is that the poor
are like a “bonsai tree,” and they can do big things if they get access
to the social business that holds the potential to empower them to
become self-sufficient.

6. Chris Mould
• If rapid growth is the benchmark, then Chris Mould is indisputably one of the UK's top social
entrepreneurs. His emergency food charity, the Trussell Trust, with its unfashionable Christian
mission to tackle povertyand feed the hungry, has become, in a slightly unnerving way, one of
the great social business success stories of the austerity era.
• Age 53.
• Status Married with four daughters.
• Lives Salisbury.
• Education Royal grammar school, High Wycombe; Magdalen College, Oxford University, BA
modern history; London School of Economics, MSc (Econ) social policy and planning in
developing countries.
• Career 2010-present: partner, the Shaftesbury Partnership; 2007-present; director, the
Trussell Trust (executive chairman since 2011); 2004-10: independent consultant,
Transformation and Strategic Change; 2001-03: chief executive, Centrex (the central police
training and development authority); 1992-2001: district general manager, Salisbury health
authority and chief executive, Salisbury healthcare NHS trust; 1988-92: general manager then
chief executive, Community and Mental Health Services, South Bedfordshire; 1982-88: NHS
planner and hospital manager, London and Southend.
• Public life Chair: Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion (a Bulgarian NGO),
FranchisingWorks Ltd and Resolving Chaos; trustee: the Trussell Trust and the Ffald-y-Brenin
Trust.
• Interests Family, running, mountaineering, theology.

7. The Achievements of Chris Mould
• The inspiration for Chris Mould’s was from the
sight of others doing their best to help the poor
even if they themselves were in a tight situation.
His foundation helped build “Trussell“during the
Labor boom years, when it was conceived as a
modest local complement to the welfare state.
He says it was "providing short-term food relief to
people in crisis while the state was given a chance
to get its act together". It was classic voluntary
sector innovation: spotting people falling through
the gaps, and moving quickly to catch them
before guiding them to more formal help.

8. Credits
• http://www.google.com.sg/imgres?num=10&hl=en&tbo=d&b
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• http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/18/chris-
mould-social-entrepreneur-responsibility
• http://2012.biochar.us.com/profile/83/jason-aramburu
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

9. Credits
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/18
/chris-mould-social-entrepreneur-responsibility
• Wikipedia.org
• Google images
• Team Members:
Sergeant -Henry Lim
Png Wei Xuan
Elton Tan
James Ng