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Youth Ambassador & Yunus Nets - the Hunt for 5000 21st C mindsets

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In early 2010, Professor Barbara Parfitt, former Dean of School of Nursing at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, came to Bangladesh to spend a year launching the Grameen Caledonian Nursing College (GCCN). The College was opened on March 1st with a batch of 40 students, and its aim is to train girls from the families of Grameen borrowers to become world-class nurses. Professor Parfitt has accepted the position of principal of the college. The college has started functioning from March 1, 2010 with the first batch of 40 students. All have received student loans from Grameen Bank to cover their expenses during their study period. As soon as they graduate from the college, they will have guaranteed jobs with Grameen Healthcare with a monthly salary of 15,000 taka (about U.S.$215), which is a very attractive salary for a new graduate
Youth Ambssador is one of DR Yunus' biggest wish projects - ie a vision he would like to see happen but does not yet have resources or time priorities to make hppen by any particular date.
LOG of this biggest of all Yunus Youth networks:
Concept briefing by Yunus to Mostofa Zaman and Lamiya Morshed summer 2008 at Bali microcreditsummit -with Mostofa assigned to project development with particular concern to evaluate how project timing might fit with debates on the banking crisis, the emerging yes we can momentum of Obama youth, and the increasing belief by Dr Yunus that he needed youth supporters of social business system as a design that provides the basis for community solutins to all sutanability crises. Note that as early as his Nobel Prize speech at end of 2006, DR Yunus had surprsied the world by shifting the focus of what he wanted to spend his own time on to the more general social business in contrast with the historically more specifically debted microcredit. In fact, from the very beginning Grameen Bank offered its members solutions to the breadth and depth of interfacing sustinability crises defined by 16 decsions - a 1983 survey of needs which billage mothers priotised regarding ivesting in their children's and own development. 16D has become of the touchstone of Grameen bnk nd the culture of teh 40 comanies Yunus has created in the ntinal Grameen brnd name prior to 2009's Global launch
 Much of the media converge in big cities had got stick with thnking of microcredit as being a specalised activity of bankers instead of an opportunity for every entrepreneur who values microeconomics. At the end of 2007, Dr Yunus launched the first in social business series of bestselling books - Creating a world with poverty: social business the future of capitalism      
The bold idea of YOuth mbassador ws to identofy and connect an lumni group of youth whose mindests about microeconomcs, system design and commun ity buolding were as close as possible to dr Ynus values and entreprenbeurila nenergies. REsearch through the acadmeimc year 08/09 ws conducted on what youth would need in terms of structiure if they were to network round this bottom up idea in spite of teachings and rewards in mist big capitals stull beung bthe other system round. A devriefing was included in part of the hostind of Fr Yunus 69th birhday hosted by Sofial Bustamante, an london job creatin community buoldeder and system designer who had worled closely round Mostof in being the London networking connectuons to the first Yunus 1000 bookclub. Given extrordnry global partnersing oppoirtunities it ws decided to very slowly ppoint youth ambssdors rther thn try to quicky nite 5000 youth  http://yunusforum.net/?page_id=2
 

Muhammad Yunus Forum has nominated the following Youth Ambassador 09/10 in order to promote the Grameen Social Business and also to advocate for Grameen microcredit as proven-sustainable models.

1. Kieran J. Garvey; London School of Economics, London UK

2. Alex Simon; George Washington University, Washington DC USA

3. Raffaello Fossati; Alumni of Univerita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milan Italy 

4. Caitlin O’Neil; Swarthmore College, San Diego USA

5. Martin Bleisteiner; East London University, London UK

6. Clemens Hagg; Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

7. Marisha Stock, St. Petersburg, Russia

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