first ever youtube by microcredit champion from prime minister's office

[collaboration entrepreneur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klUu03EMeRs

Scene 1 Greeting
Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Hello How are you, what a pleasure
Muhammad Yunus: It’s a pleasure for me
PM : It’s good to see you (They Shake Hands)

Scene 2 Muhammad Yunus Introduces himself to the camera from the heart
of 10 Downing Street I am Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh with Grameen
bank. We lend money to extremely poor people for income generating
activities. I am suggesting that Africa needs a lot of microfinance
programs – tiny loans 30 dollar, 45 dollar 100 dollar – and paid back
in weekly installments. It doesn’t need any collateral. It doesn’t
need any lawyers into it but the repayment rate is very high: 98% or
99%. Microfinance is very important because it allows people to bring
out their own initiative, bring out their own capability. And they can
move on their own speed to cerate income, to get out of poverty. And
people in Africa are very enterprising people, particularly women.
Microfinance focuses on women. Today in Bangladesh within Grameen Bank
we have 7.5 million borrowers a- 97% of them women. The Prime Minister
is very much aware of it; very supportative of it. So we will discuss
how to make it happen in Africa

Scene 3 PM and Dr Yunus sitting round a cup of tea
PM There is so much goodwill to the work you have been doing, and it
is so important

Scene 4 After tea: Muhammad Yunus denouement
At the same time, we will be discussing another concept – the social
business : business to do good to people - (show copy of Dr Yunus new
bestselling book Creating a World Without Poverty- Social Business,
The Future of Capitalism ). This is business where you aim at the
social objectives, not for making money for yourself. You cover your
cost, make profit but the profit doesn’t go to investors or outsiders
but stays with the company to achieve the goal that you set out to
help achieve or lead.