Muhammad Yunus - the Bangladeshi banker who received the Nobel Peace Prize last Sunday - has launched a pop record and video to help raise funds for an eye hospital in his country.
British-Norwegian group The Green Children will provide the tunes, in the form of a CD and DVD titled 'Hear Me Now'. The Green Children are Norwegian vocalist Milla Sunde and British pianist Tom Bevan.Sunde and Bevan are advocates of Yunus' microcredit movement, which lends small amounts of money to some of the world's poorest people. So far, Yunus' Grameen Bank has loaned money to 6.61 million people in Bangladesh, of which 97% are women. The loan recovery rate is an astonishing 98.85%. Yunus and his bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below."
Yunus explained that he was "very taken by the ['Hear Me Now' musical project] idea", and that, "through them we can communicate with their peers around the world."
Sunde said that if they sell the entire run of records, three eye hospitals will be able to be built in Bangladesh.
