When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

This case concerns a Grameen village phone user who received overdue bills even though Muhammad Yunus had paid the bills regularly. There is no ideology here”. AMA Muhith) to remove Yunus from Grameen—and used the High Court and Supreme Court to justify her decision.

Grameen Intel is just one of hundreds of public and private partnerships now mediated Youth & Yunus. Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. In early 2007 Yunus showed interest in launching a political party in Bangladesh named Nagorik Shakti (Citizen Power) but later discarded the plan.