 While a professor at Chittagong University, Yunus began to take notice of the extreme poverty of the villagers around him.In 1976, Yunus incorporated the help of Maimuna Begum to collect data of people in Jobra who were living in poverty.Most of these impoverished people would take a loan from moneylenders to buy some raw material, using that raw material to create some product, and then selling back the good to the moneylender to repay the loan, earning a very meager profit.