This is an approximate timeline of health knowledge and services connected along Grameen's micro Social Business Journey - we welcome edits

1976 grameen project starts with 4 people including Dr Yunus and the only woman co-founder Mrs Begum
it is soon clear that before women can profit from loans they need to communally support each other and share health knowledge particularly since the average health is very poor - illiterate village woman close to starvation were in 1970s still expected to breed about 8 children, with 2 likely to be lost in infanthood to diarrhea -ironically curable given simple knowhow of the right mix of sugar, salts and clean water; smaller familiies and 60 village women communities looking after each other were the core design that grameen village centre banking chose

in those days village women did not exit their homes when strangers were in the village and only women could knock on their doors; so dr yunus often sat in the middle of the village surrounded by childrem; he soon noted most were night blind; this started grameen banks first nutritional social business service - cartoot seeds which it members bought in tiny one cent packets making grameen bank also the largest seeds reatiler in the country!

next came the need for the lowest cost safe home - constructed round as a hut with monsooon proof roof, cyclone proof pilars and a pit latrine- about 700,000 housing loans only for this safe family dweilling have been made by grameen, and the design soom got an aga khan prize for architecture

it wasnt until 1992 that a specific health diagnostics branch of grameen was founded http://www.grameenkalyan.org/

it should be noted that the other great Bangladeshi social entreprise network BRAC was the earliest in to rural-wide training of oral rehydration and this also became the platform for informal door to door saleswomen of basic medicines themselves microfinabced by BRAC

in these ways by the early 1990s, the foundations of the world's most economical micro up rural health systems had been developed; but in grameen's case it wasn't until winning the Nobel Prize and forming the first global grameen corporate brand partnership with the French Global brand company Danone that worldwide collaboration partners in heath could be easily searched, and Global Grameen could aim to be world's number 1 brand by 2015