{"id":44316,"date":"2015-05-30T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44316"},"modified":"2015-05-30T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:38:58","slug":"focusing-on-youth-empowerment-at-social-business-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/30\/focusing-on-youth-empowerment-at-social-business-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on youth empowerment at social business day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0By NJ Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati: Emphasizing on all round youth empowerment, the 6th annual Social Business Day was organized by Yunus Centre on 28 May 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>The daylong event with the theme titled \u2018We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers\u2014Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship\u2019 was hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, which was attended by more than 1600 delegates including 250 international participants from around 30 countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/social.b.day_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/social.b.day_.jpg\" alt=\"social.b.day\" width=\"960\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/social.b.day_.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/social.b.day_-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the auspicious gathering in his\u00a0 keynote speech, the Bangladeshi peace Nobel laureate, emphasized on breaking the curse of poverty and unemployment by using creative power of youths and scientific knowhow.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Social Business Day is observed every year on June 28, it has been preponed this year because of Ramadan. Next year, also for the same reason, the Day will be celebrated on 28 May 2016, said a statement issued by the Yunus Centre based in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Three plenary sessions including \u2018Meet Nobin Udyoktas (new entrepreneur)\u2019, \u2018Sharing Experiences in Social Business around the World\u2019 and \u2018Road Map Forward\u2019 were comprised in the Day, which was kicked off with a beautiful performance by Grameen Shiksha School.<\/p>\n<p>Various speakers visiting Dhaka from different parts of the world gave their insights in the discussions, which were moderated by Prof Yunus.<\/p>\n<p>There was a social business marketplace showcasing the products and programmes with a fair comprising new entrepreneurs\u2019 products and was organised a panel on social business in greater China. Over 90 participants from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong joined in the panel discussion covering the concept &amp; best practices, present status, future plans of social business around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Emphasizing on all round youth empowerment, the 6th annual Social Business Day was organized by Yunus Centre on 28 May 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka of Bangladesh. The daylong event with the theme titled \u2018We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers\u2014Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship\u2019 was hosted by Nobel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}