The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus
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  1. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

  2. The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

  3. ...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

  4. UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices...

  5. Changes are products of intensive efforts.

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