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Date:
Thu, 19 October 2006 11:45 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Microcredit Pioneer Getting the Nobel Peace Prize 2006
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The Nobel Peace
Prize 2006 |
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Norwegian Nobel
Committtee chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes holds up a
photograph of Muhammad Yunus in Oslo. Attack the
causes of poverty and you remove the roots of
conflict -- that is the message the Nobel
Committee wanted to send out by awarding its
Peace Prize to the creator of a micro-credit
scheme which benefits millions.
(AFP/Scanpix/Haakon
Mosvold Larsen)
AFP/Scanpix
- Oct 13 9:00 AM |
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Muhammad Yunus
speaks to television stations outside his house
in Dhaka October 13, 2006 after winning the
Nobel Peace prize. Bangladeshi economist Yunus
and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006
Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots
efforts to lift millions out of porverty that
earned him the nickname 'banker to the poor'.
REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman
(BANGLADESH) Reuters - Oct 13 8:31 AM
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Nobel Peace Prize
winner Muhammad Yunus (L) is hugged by his
daughter Dina in Dhaka. Development groups and
political leaders around the world have hailed
Yunus for his work in helping millions escape
poverty with small-scale loans.
(AFP/Farjana
K. Godhuly)
AFP
- Oct 13 8:30 AM |
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Muhammad Yunus
stands next to his wife after winning the Nobel
Peace Prize. Yunus began fighting poverty during
a devastating famine in Bangladesh, setting up
the tiny Grameen Bank in 1976 to provide access
to credit to people too poor to qualify for
traditional bank loans.
(AFP/Farjana
K. Godhuly)
AFP
- Oct 13 8:53 AM |
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Women who took small
loans from Grameen Bank gather at a house to pay
back their loan instalments to a Grameen Bank
officer in Dhaka in this January 19, 2004 file
photo. Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and
the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace
Prize on October 13, 2006 for grassroots efforts
to lift millions out of poverty that earned him
the nickname of 'banker to the poor.'
(Rafiqur
Rahman/Files/Reuters) Reuters - Oct 13 3:39 PM
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Muhammad Yunus,
Managing Director Grameen Bank Bangladesh speaks
during the award show of the ITU World
Information Society Award in Geneva,
Switzerland, in this May 17, 2006 file photo.
Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad
Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 13, 2006
for their work in advancing economic and social
opportunities for the poor, particularly women.
(AP
Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini).
AP -
Oct 13 3:21 AM |
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Bangladeshi women
Sahera Khatun(R) and Monju Begum(L) feed their
chickens, which they bought with a money loan
from Grameen Bank microcredit project in
Manikganj. Microcredit has become an
increasingly powerful tool to free the world's
poorest people, particularly women, from the
prison of poverty and the power of loan sharks.
(AFP/File/Farjana
K Godhuly)
AFP/File
- Oct 13 10:51 AM |
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Bangladeshi woman
Sorufa Banu feeds her cattle which she bought
with a money loan from Grameen Bank microcredit
project in Manikganj. Microcredit has
become an increasingly powerful tool to free the
world's poorest people, particularly women, from
the prison of poverty and the power of loan
sharks.(AFP/File/Farjana K
Godhuly) AFP/File - Oct 13 10:51 AM |
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Bangladeshi
carpenter Anil Sutradhr(R) works at his backyard
shop which he opened with a loan from Grameen
Bank microcredit project in Manikganj.
Microcredit has become an increasingly
powerful tool to free the world's poorest
people, particularly women, from the prison of
poverty and the power of loan sharks.
(AFP/File/Farjana
K Godhuly) AFP/File - Oct 13 10:51 AM |
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Bangladeshi
shopkeeper Saidur Rahman tries to connect a call
for a client at his shop on a mobile in
Manikganj. Rahman's mother got a loan from the
Grameen Bank microcredit project to buy
her son's phone for him to rent it to villagers
wanting to make a call. Microcredit has become
an increasingly powerful tool to free the
world's poorest people, particularly women, from
the prison of poverty and the power of loan
sharks.
(AFP/File/Farjana
K Godhuly) AFP/File - Oct 13 10:51 AM
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Banesa Khatun, a
user of Grameen Bank's microcredit scheme, poses
with her son Anis Mia in the village of Basta,
45km (28 miles) from Dhaka October 15, 2006.
Khatun says the microcredit scheme Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus introduced
in Bangladesh 30 years ago lifted her from the
poorest of the poor to a respectable,
self-dependent woman. Yunus and his Grameen
Bank, which offers tiny loans to the poorest to
help them become self-employed, were jointly
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Picture
taken October 15, 2006.
(Rafiqur
Rahman./Reuters)
Reuters - Oct 18 2:53 PM |
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Banesa Khatun, a
user of Grameen Bank's microcredit
scheme, feeds chickens in her poultry firm in
the village of Basta, 28 miles from Dhaka
October 15, 2006.
(Rafiqur
Rahman./Reuters)
Reuters - Oct 16 12:25 AM |
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Banesa Khatun (L) ,
a user of Grameen Bank's microcredit
scheme, carries her son as she queues to return
her loan instalment at the bank in the village
of Basta, 28 miles from Dhaka October 15, 2006.
(Rafiqur
Rahman./Reuters)
Reuters - Oct 16 12:25 AM
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Microsoft
founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, left,
meets with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo
at his farm on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria,
Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006. Gates met with Obasanjo
for talks on fighting poverty and disease in the
world's poorest continent, a senior official
said Sunday.
(AP
Photo)
AP - Oct 08 2:19 PM
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The announcement of Mr. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank winning the
Noble Peace Prize 2006 is also related with his capacity as the pioneer
of microcredit he introduced in Bangladesh 30 years ago that
lifted so many people from the poorest of the poor, free the world's
poorest people, particularly women, from the prison of poverty and the
power of loan sharks.
Microcredit that he introduces three
decades ago becomes his main strength to get the Nobel Peace Prize 2006.
For me it seems like I have indirectly inspiring the Nobel Committee about the
micro word like from the word Microsoft, after I began to
write you since June 2006. To help free the world's poorest people, for
the good of this world.
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Date:
Thu, 18 October 2006 12:45 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Your Visit to Africa After the "Ndut" Death
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WHO DID THIS?
72,5 x 94 cm
acrylic on canvas
This painting was started a few weeks earlier, but then
abandoned to do some other paintings. It was being worked
again, when Mr. George Bush was visiting Africa. |
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Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates ,
right, and his wife Melinda meet with Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo at his farm on the outskirts of Lagos,
Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006. Gates met with Obasanjo for
talks on fighting poverty and disease in the world's poorest
continent, a senior official said Sunday.
(AP Photo)
AP - Oct 08 2:18 PM |
Your
visit to Africa with your wife Melinda to meet Nigerian
President Olusegun Obasanjo took place on October 8, 2006, after
the death of Ndut of October 4, 2006.
It reminds me with my painting of a Leopard with the title
"Who Did This?" I produced in 2003, about a
leopard in the African land. It was then followed by president Bush
visit to Africa to meet also with Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo.
And it was after your visit to Africa that I realized the Leopard pose
was a little bit like Ndut pose in the above right photo. As if your
visit to Africa was inspired by the similarity of Ndut pose and the
Leopard painting in Africa.
But I think the most important thing is that Mr. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen
bank winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 happened later on, with his
activities as the microcredit pioneer
on fighting poverty just like what you have done so far.
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