Yunus Centre Interns Magazine#12

the programme, we were motivated to think about
new ideas, and during the last week of our visit we
even worked out a social business plan, with inputs
from Grameen officials and Prof. Yunus himself.
“Smart guys make things complicated”, this was one of
the first lines which Prof. Yunus said, as he began his
conversation with us. He took us through his journey,
from the inception of Grameen Bank to conceptualizing
Social Business. With laying the stones of the
Farhan Tanvir
Grameen Bank, and later the entire Grameen business,
he explained to us how the social problems of today
like poverty and unemployment need to be dealt with
in a non-academic way.
Army Institute of Business
Administration
So, even though we could not get through with even
half of the programme, the experience of whatever I
learnt was really great. All the people at Yunus Centre
selflessly wanted to help us take the maximum learnings
back, and interacting with Prof. Yunus just added
to it. I always confused a social enterprise as being the
same as a social business, but this experience helped
me understand the basic difference between the two.
My major takeaway would be that if we think creatively,
without limiting ourselves to conventional theories,
we can come up with multiple solutions of tackling
social problems. I have read many stories of social
entrepreneurs and social organizations, and have
always wanted to do something of my own, and meeting
with this great personality only made me feel even
more strongly about the issue. I know I will be in touch
with Yunus Centre in the future, and I hope that our
association goes a long way.
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