“Making Others Happy is a Super Happiness.”
Dr Muhammad Yunus, YGB Global Gala, Nov 13
THANK YOU!
What an inspiring day it was. More than 1300 registered from around the world.
Thanks to our amazing Ambassadors and Supporters who offered live dialogue sessions of enlightenment as well as wonderful yoga classes.
With as little as $10, you can get access to REPLAY until the end of this year.
Wit your generous support, we have reached our goal of $50,000 with this Gala.
The YGB Namaste Award
is a tribute to visionaries who inspire the global yoga community and beyond with their vision. In addition, these individuals have committed themselves to humanitarian causes to make this world a better place.
LIVE Saturday, Nov. 13th @7:00 p.m. PST/ 10p.m. EST / 9 a.m. (14th) Bangladesh
We are truly proud to honor
Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus
as the recipient of the 2021 YGB Namaste Award, especially as Dr. Yunus inspired YGB’s birth fourteen years ago with his revolutionary microcredit.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is the father of both social business and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 other companies in Bangladesh. For his constant innovation and enterprise, Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus in March 2012 as “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.”
In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Today, Grameen Bank lends out over $2.5 billion a year to 9 million poor women on the basis of trust only, no collateral with a repayment of over 98%. The impact of microcredit in enabling millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty helped to expose the shortcomings of a traditional banking system that denied its services to those who needed them most—the world’s poorest people. Dr. Yunus has expanded his micro credit to a much broader concept as Social Business, a selfless business whose purpose is to bring and end to a social problem.
He is the recipient of 61 honorary degrees from universities across 24 countries. He has received 136 awards from 33 countries including state honors from 10 countries. He is one of only seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Learn more about Dr. Yunus and the Yunus Center here.
Introduction by Suresh Krishna, CEO , Yunus Social Business Fund Bangaluru
Previous Namaste Award Recipients
Previous Namaste Award Recipients
Previous Namaste Award Recipients
Ambassadors of the Year 2021
Daphne Tse and Jocelyn Solomon
Daphne Tse, USA
Daphne Tse joined Yoga Gives Back as Ambassador in 2014 soon after we met at the Asia Yoga Conference in Hong Kong. Daphne has been a dedicated Ambassador, sharing YGB’s mission and fundraising on our behalf, while touring in Japan and many other international events. During the COVID-19 crisis in India in 2021, Daphne demonstrated incredible leadership by engaging more than 80 artists and teachers from over twenty countries to come together for a three-day, live streaming event – “A Global Gathering for India.” It was truly an epic event, raising nearly $50,000 to support our fund recipients in India with emergency relief and programs of empowerment.
Jocelyn Solomon, USA
Jocelyn Solomon joined Yoga Gives Back in 2019 and has been passionately advocating for YGB through her successful fundraising classes, subsequently joining the YGB Board of Directors in 2020. Jocelyn was instrumental in securing YogaWorks’ commitment to their long-term collaboration with YGB to reach out to their large national community with our mission. We are truly grateful, as well, for her creation of the YGB Ambassadors Forum with Ambassador Maneesh Kalra, to connect and grow this very powerful community of yoga teachers from around the world.
Your Donations Impact
The world has witnessed India’s struggle with the devastating impact of the second surge of COVID-19 this year with an increase concern for the third wave this fall. Your donations support more than 2400 women and children with YGB’s programs of empowerment in India.
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in celebration of the recognition for Jocelyn Solomon as
Ambassador of the Year 2021
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