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Prof Yunus receives US medal today

Rezaul Karim
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus will receive the US Presidential Medal from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony today.
Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people. Prof Yunus will be the first Bangladeshi to receive the coveted award for his pioneering role in allev ia ting global poverty.
Yunus introduced "micro credit" to provide loans to poor people who don't have collateral
He founded the Grameen Bank in 1983 in his native Bangladesh to provide low-interest loan to poor people. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in2006for his works.
The US's highest civilian honour included six women from sports, entertainment, science and government - a native American war chief, a civil rights leader, an African-American actor, two US lawmakers and a doctor.
According to the White House announcement, the recipients were selected for their works as "agents of change" in the fields raptjiug from sports and art io science and medicine to politics and public policy and represent -inga diversity o {backgrounds.
The other recipients are: Desmond Tutu, a South African anti-apartheid veteran who won Nobel Peace Prize in 1984: British physicist Stephen Hawking; Obama's political ally Senator Edward M Kennedy; Ireland's first woman president Mary Robinson; Sandia Day O'Connor, the first woman justice on the US Supreme Court US geneticist Janet Davison Rowley, Nancy Goodman Brinker, who founded the global breast cancer grassroots organisation in USA; former tennis pro Billie Jean King; actress. dancer and singer Chita Rivera; Pedro Jose Greer, an academic and doctor who works extensively with the poor in Florida; Sidney Poitier, the first African-American to win a Academy Award for best actor, die last living Plains Indian war chief Joseph Medicine Crow, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official of a major US city Rev Joseph Lowery, a leader in the civil rights movements since the early 1950s; former Republican lawmaker of New York Jack Kemp will also receive the coveted award.
The meda& representing the nation‘s Ugliest hqnour, for a civilian, aid the first io be awarded byObama
President Harry S. Truman established the Medal of Freedom in 1945 to recognise civilians for their efforts during the World War 11. President John F. Kennedy reinstated the medal in 1963 to honour distinguished service.
In his recent statement, Obama said "Each saw an imperfect world and set aboutimpruving it. often overcoming great obstacles along the way Their relentless devotion to breaking down barriers and lifting up their fellow citizens sets a standard to which we all should strive." he added