Day 17 - Meeting Prof. Yunus

Hello everyone!

After the Kathmandu - Nepal dream, we came back to work in Dhaka.
This morning, alarm at 9.00h and arrival to the Grameen tower 10.00h, with the morning meeting with our dear coordinator Shamim.

When we arrived, we did not understand what happened, every single tree, plant was decorated with coloured ballons, it seemed that a birthday party was going on...
We went up to the 8th floor, and as I said before we started the morning meeting.

Shamim told us that it was a special day (as we already knew because of the ballons), it was the day of the anniversary of the center managers (!?#), and they set up stands of every sister company of Grameen Bank, Grameen energy (Solar panels), Grameen Danone (yoghourts), Grameen Netwear (export clothes), etc to show their products, and what they do to the Grameen employees...

Obviously, Professor Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Price Winner was present, in the middle of a dozen of photographers that kept on pushing everyone. He was going through every stand.
We were the only 4 people that were and looked europeans, he saw us, he suddenly stopped doing what he was doing and came up to us arms straight, wanting to shake hands.


During this moment we looked like stars, fifty people were staring at us, photographers everywere... He asked us from were we were, what were our names, we talked for 10 sec each and then he continued his walk to another stand.


We stayed a little while to visit the stands aswell and then we left to the international trade fair (it was interesting to see how a fair looke like in Bangladesh...)



In the afternoon, we did not had to come back to the bank, it was a very sunny day, so we decided to chill in the pool of the hotel. jaja.

After a while, we decided to go back to the room beacause today it was a very weird day, all the muezzins of the mosquees next to our hotel kept on shouting and kinda singing, and the traffic was particularly loud... it was impossible to stay outside...

We understood later that they were calling everyone, there is an islamic conference that is going on from 16.00h and still has not ended (it is 00.47h now and the muezzin keeps on shouting with at least 600 islamic followers, preety scarring...)



As Shamim told us, he has arranged for us a proper meeting with Professor Yunus tomorrow.
We will tell you tomorrow how it went...
Good night eveyone, i'll go to bed because it is quite late (I hope that this muezzin will stop shouting soon because I want to sleep well, tommorrow is the big day...)
Nite nite. Peace.
JB