Why did this energy initiative originally came from the Grameen Bank?
Grameen Shakti strives to create a synergy between renewable energy technology and micro-credit in order to give rural people a chance to improve their quality of life and also take part in income generating activities. The Grameen Bank is our parent organisation, Professor Yunnus is the founder of the bank and myself is right now the deputy director of the bank. In my own village the Grameen bank was born in 1976. With the Grameen Bank we are now operating in whole Bangaldesh. We have 7.5 million borrowers, almost one person in each family, 97 % of them are women. In 2006 Grameen Bank and Prof. Yunnus got the Nobel Peace Prize. And this micro-credit is now operating all over the world, more then 100 countries are replicating it. What we did since 1996 was exploring the potentials for using this foundation for a different energy strategy – solar energy, bio-gas, wind energy – and we found that solar energy is much more suitable. We now have a long experience in micro-credit and micro f
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