Prof. Muhammad Yunus

“Hearty Congratulations to Community Jameel on its 75th Anniversary

I am delighted to extend my warm congratulations to the Community Jameel on celebrating 75 years of philanthropy!

This anniversary is a time for reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the future.

I am pleased by the Community Jameel’s groundbreaking work that they continue to conduct on the most pressing issues of the world.  They are working towards delivering quality education with disruptive mechanisms in technology, teaching methods, mentorship and programs globally.  The ultimate goal is to eradicate barriers to learning. In the arena of health, they aim to improve healthcare facilities, especially for the poor, using technology like machine learning, robotics and data science.  To tackle the climate crisis, they are working to provide food and water security for everyone with the help of unique technologies.  They conduct intensive research in labs to test what will work in real life and what will not.  No matter what kind of change they are aspiring to make, they do it through evidence-based research within the spheres of data, science, and technology.

Our work on microcredit was chosen by Community Jameel to focus their attention on.  The Community supported US based Grameen Foundation’s — Grameen Jameel Initiative to provide Microfinance in several countries in the North Africa, the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.  It also supported a French initiative to produce a feature film on Grameen Bank and me.

Mohammed Jameel decided to fund the Poverty Action Lab at his alma mater MIT.  It was inspired by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and was designed to generating creative ideas to solve global poverty.

Mohammed Jameel made me a part of the organization he created called Coexist Foundation.  This aimed at interfaith understanding and dialogue.

His representative Tim Ryan supported us on media coverage pro bono for the Nobel Prize events in Oslo in 2006, helping to arrange some of the interviews at the time.

I am very lucky to have friendship with Mohammed Jameel to see his work at a close range.  He is making great contributions to uplift the population which is forgotten by the mainstream decisions and policies.

I send all my good wishes on this occasion of 75th Anniversary to Mohammed, and his organizations, in their journey to making the world a better place.”

Professor Muhammad Yunus

 

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