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Felicitations From Leading Microfinance Practitioners |
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I am delighted at hearing the news of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 being awarded to Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank. Prof Yunus, through his life and work, has transformed the ways in which poverty and the poor are viewed and focused attention to reforming institutions and systems that exclude the poor. He has championed the cause of the poor by challenging all to question the logic of institutions, aid and development; and has argued powerfully and relentlessly for a vision of a poverty free world, challenge in which all can and must play a role.
This award for Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank acknowledges the importance of home grown solutions to defeating poverty. Civil society organizations have made tremendous contributions to Bangladesh's development, both economic and social, and have offered solutions to addressing poverty that have been replicated around the world.
As a fellow development practitioner, I am therefore particularly happy that a civil society organization and its leader from Bangladesh have been recognized in this manner. I join all my colleagues at BRAC in congratulating Prof Muhammad Yunus, his organization and all the clients of Grameen Bank for this well-deserved award and for taking Bangladesh and all of us to new heights of recognition and inspiration. I am certain that this recognition for Professor Yunus and his work will act to energize us all in working towards a world free of poverty.
Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder and Chairperson
BRAC
Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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Great!! Great!!
Greetings from India, the microfinance movement in the country and the more specifically all of us in Sa-Dhan.
We have been extremely pleased by this wonderful news of development of you and Grameen Bank receiving the Nobel prize and at this moment would like to share in your joy and in the celebrations at Grameen Bank. This is equally a recognition of the women in Bangladesh, the small savers, the small borrowers, the loan repayers and underlines their integrity and discipline.
We believe that this is a great moment for the movement and would like to thank you for the comments that you have made to the media in India, supporting our efforts. We are particularly encouraged by the mention that you have made of the need for resources both for lending and capacity building-and the legislative framework for microfinance .
We tried and tried to call you, but impossible, to tell you that God bless you!
With best wishes.
Ela R. Bhatt
Sa-Dhan
Founder, SEWA India
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The FINCA International Board of Directors, our more than 3,000 employees worldwide, and our hundreds of thousands of clients around the globe, all join together to extend to Muhammad Yunus our deepest and most heartfelt congratulations on winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Grameen Bank. To be honored with such a prestigious award is a testament to Dr. Yunus dedicated efforts to empower the worlds poor to lift themselves out of poverty by providing access to financial services.
We are proud that Dr. Yunus served as a member of FINCA International's Board of Directors for seven years. During that time and since then, he has helped bring much-needed attention to the plight of
the poor and the possibilities of hope that microcredit provides. And now this recognition has catapulted the microfinance industry onto the world stage, forever changing the landscape for clients and practitioners, alike. Dr. Yunus has been a visionary and a pioneer, and we are proud to claim him as one of our own.
Board of Directors
FINCA
USA
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ACCION International extends its heartfelt congratulations to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Yunus' contribution to raising the profile of microfinance and worldwide understanding of its power is well-known by all; that the Prize committee has recognized his contribution to the poor of Bangladesh and beyond, is a fitting honor. All of us who have been working to empower the poor through microfinance are enormously encouraged by this recognition. On behalf of the ACCION staff, board, partners, and particularly all of the clients we serve around the world, I salute and congratulate Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank.
Warm regards,
Maria Otero
President & CEO
ACCION International
USA
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