The film Bonsai Peoplecelebrates Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ extraordinary humanitarian work, which started when he simply lent $27 to 42 people out of his own pocket.

The film will be shown at the JOAN B. KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE & JUSTICE at the University of San Diego, on June 20th at 7pm. The director Holly Mosher will be in attendance.

Please read below for more information, taken from the Bonsai People website.

As the founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people – mainly women – with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families. His Grameen Bank currently lends to one out of every 1,000 people on earth and with a 98% rate of return – unheard of in the financial world.

Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business – a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. Bonsai People shows how Yunus – in partnership with some of the world’s most visionary businesses – is launching purposely designed social ventures. From collaborating with Danone to produce affordable, nutritious yogurt for malnourished children in Bangladesh to building eyecare hospitals that will save hundreds of thousands of poor people from blindness. Bonsai People offers a glimpse into his visionary work.

Bonsai People is a feature length documentary film that explores the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his vision from microcredit to social business.

Bonsai People received the Audience Award for Best Film at the UNA-USA GLOBAL WAKE-UP Film Festival, and was voted one of the Top 5 Transformational Films of 2011 by the Aware Guide.