FINCA Leadership Congratulates Nobel Peace Prize Winners Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank

Washington, DC
October, 2006

The FINCA International Board of Directors, our more than 3,000 employees worldwide, and our hundreds of thousands of clients around the globe all join together to extend to Muhammad Yunus our deepest and most heartfelt congratulations on winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Grameen Bank. To be honored with such a prestigious award is a testament to Dr. Yunus’ dedicated efforts to empower the world’s poor to lift themselves out of poverty by providing access to financial services.

We are proud that Dr. Yunus served as a member of FINCA International’s Board of Directors for seven years. During that time and since then, he has helped bring much-needed attention to the plight of the poor and the possibilities of hope that microcredit provides. And now this recognition has catapulted the microfinance industry onto the world stage, forever changing the landscape for clients and practitioners, alike. Dr. Yunus has been a visionary and a pioneer, and we are proud to claim him as one of our own.

Please see our Press Release.