Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged Islamic NGOs to take up more social businesses to support the Muslim world.
"In our world we focus on women, health care. If you are poor, you have health care problems. We approached health care as a means to support the poor," the chief adviser told a group of NGO leaders from different Muslim countries at the Jamuna State House.
Social business is a good way to carry out this support, said the chief adviser, according to a press release from the Chief Adviser's Press Wing.
He said he was also encouraging young people around the world to take up social business and become entrepreneurs.
The NGO leaders present at the meeting asserted, the social business campaign that Yunus carried out in recent years had encouraged them to take up similar ventures in their respective countries.
Eyüp Akbal, secretary general of the Union of NGOs of the Islamic World; UNIW from Turkey; Muhammed Hüseyin Akta, representative of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations; Fauwaz Bin Hasbullah, Persatuan Wadah Pencerdasan Umat Malaysia (WADAH) UNIW and deputy secretary general, UNIW from Malaysia; Muhammad Abdus Shakoor, president of Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan and Deputy Secretary General of UNIW from Pakistan; and Salamun Bashri, auditing board member, UNIW from Indonesia were present at the meeting as foreign delegates.
Mahbub Ahmed, Pprofessor of Dhaka University (Ret.) and president of BIIT; S M Rasheduzzman, chairperson SAWAB and member of High Advisory Board, UNIW; Ali Afzal, council member, UNIW and managing director of Krishibid Group; and M Abdul Aziz, director general of BIIT and country representative, IIIT, were among those present.
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