Shamima to attend UN Year of Microcredit closing session
Shamima Khatun, one of the four winners of the Global Microentrepreneurship Awards (GMA) organised by Citigroup Foundation, and United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), leaves for New York on November 6 to attend as a guest of honour the closing ceremony of the International Year of Microcredit.Shamima who has been adjudged the winner of the "Most Innovative Business of the Year"will represent Bangladesh at the Gala Closing Forum at the UN headquarters, says a press release. This was announced at a press conference yesterday in Dhaka, where Citigroup Country Officer Mamun Rashid, among others, was present. Shamima, 26, who hails from Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira district, was a poor vendor of vegetables before she became a member of Noabeki Gonomukhi Foundation (NGF), a local MFI, in January 1994. After becoming a member of NGF, she started saving money from her daily profits. In June 1994, she took her first loan of Tk 4,000 from NGF and started her business with the help of her husband by setting up a small vegetables shop at Noabeki Bazar. Now she has become a whole-seller of vegetables in the locality. " was the first person who supplied fresh vegetables from nearby districts to my area and gained the first-mover advantage,"she said.
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