The Grameen Bank has significantly improved the lives of hundreds of women and their households. Grameen Bank founder, Muhammad Yunus, believes the Banks's microfinance model can end world poverty: "There is no reason why poverty should be here. This is a rich country - 120, million energetic, hardworking, intelligent people. They can change the world."

Listen to Professor Yunus as he tells the story of the first US$27 loan in a village of Bangladesh, the loan that launched the microfinance movement. Watch him as he recalls how surprised he was that it took so little money to free village women from modern-day slavery, humiliation and torture.

Rooy Media LLC has created over fifty programs that educate people about important social issues. This video clip is an excerpt from "Breaking Through", the flagship video for Grameen Foundation, a global organization that works with scores of microfinance organizations on four continents. Along with its partners, it extends tiny loans, financial services and new technology to almost three million poor families worldwide. For more information, visit www.rooymedia.com.

A preview of Prof Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the Poor - one of a series of 16 DVDs created by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Professor Yunus, recently awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, describes his three-decade-long effort to extend micro-credit (small loans for self-employment). Grameen Bankb now makes small loans to 7 million families in Bangladesh, and has helped almost half of them work their way out of poverty. This is the story of his life-long struggle and accomplishments, told in his own words. Produced by Rooy Media LLC for Ashoka. To purchase the films, visit dvd.ashoka.org.

Prof Muhammad Yunus describes his successful micro-credit financing program catering to the unlikeliest of clients: street beggars. This program was recorded in joint collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California and Link TV.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Muhammad_Yu...