Youth Ambassador is an initiative of Muhammad Yunus Forum. The core objective of this initiative is to promote social business to the youths of the world. Like Grameen credit, Social Business is a tools to fight poverty. Yunus Forum offers a platform for youths to join 2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus to make a poverty free world.
The working cycle of Youth Ambassador program of this academic year is: 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011. The selection of youth ambassador is on rolling basis. Yunus Forum will nominate 25 ambassadors this academic year of 2010/11: 5 in Asia, 5 in Europe, 5 in North America, 5 in Africa and 5 in South America. The number of supporters should be unlimited. The supporters will be taken care of by ambassadors regionally. All ambassadors will get a pay as you go invitation to the annual meeting of the Yunus Forum with Professor Muhammad Yunus.
So if you are up to role as a Youth Ambassador for the academic year 2010/11, please write us your interests to: info@yunusforum.net with the following info.
1. Why do you like to become a Youth Ambbassador and what is your plan of actions to role as a youth ambassador?
2. Your institution/organization and level of study/work
3. Name:
4. City and Country:
5. Email:
6. Have you ready “Banker to the poor” and/or “Creating a world without poverty” and/or “Building Social Business”? If yes, please say your views respectively.
7. Have you visited any grameen branches/projects? If yes, please provide the details along with your views.
8. Have you listened to any lecture by Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus? If yes, please write your views.
9. What is your vision of life? How it will help create a poverty free world?
10. Please write your suggestions for Yunus Forum.
The Activities:
1. Forming social business/grameen credit club in campus
2. Promoting Social Business and advocating grameen credit
3. Peer to peer motivation [at least 20 peers]
4. Designing social business based on Yunus ideas.
Star Rating Allocation:
• One Star: Reader of Banker to the Poor
• One Star: Reader of Creating a world without Poverty
• One Star: Listener of a speech by Muhammad Yunus
• One Star: Intern and/or Exposure visitor of Grameen Bank
• One Star: Motivator of Twenty peoples
