Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed presented a Phoenix Award, the city's highest honor, to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for championing "microcredit" -- small loans given to poor and female entrepreneurs as a way to eradicate poverty.
Representatives from a range of Atlanta-based charities, health organizations, civil rights groups and universities attended the ceremony on Friday, May 11 at City Hall.
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