Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged all to vote for Bangladeshi mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen to win the National Geographic People’s Choice Award.
Prof Yunus also congratulated Wasfia for becoming the first ever Bangladeshi to be selected as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
In a statement at the Yunus Centre, the Nobel laureate said: “You [Wasfia] have made us incredibly proud.
“We want to see Wasfia and Bangladesh win the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year too.”
In a picture posted on the Facebook page of the Yunus Centre, Prof Yunus is seen holding a placard saying “I vote for Wasfia every day… Do you?.”
It is the National Geogrphic’s second category of award- People’s Choice Award- in which your vote matters for Wasfia.
You can vote her every day by clicking here.
Names of the winners of the People’s Choice Award will be announced in February 2015.
Wasfia is the second Bangladeshi woman who conquered the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
