Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has said the international community should be united to face global food crisis, otherwise the development targets of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) would be hampered severely. "Due to abnormal price hike of oil an unstable situation has occurred across the world. The situation has aggravated further due to global food crisis, climate change and fall of the Dollar. If the international community does not unite to face the problem then the MDG would be hampered,' he said. Dr Yunus was addressing a gathering of 500 Americans at the Public Library in New York yesterday, reports News World. About the micro-credit programme of Grameen Bank he said the programme has created a revolution to make poor women self-sufficient. Although the programme was criticised by religious and leftists organisations it has overcome their criticism by improving the lifestyle of poor people, he added. Dr Yunus said scarcity of pure drinking water in Bangladesh is getting severe day by day. "Under this circumstance, a pure drinking water plant is being set up with the help of the Unicef as a social business. As a result, people will be able to get safe drinking water at low cost,' he added. Grameen American Bank opens today Dr Muhammad Yunus will formally inaugurate the Grameen American Bank at the Jackson Heights in New York today, reports ANA. The bank has already started giving loans and it distributed loans worth 3,50,000 US dollars to 165 poor Americans especially the immigrant communities till April 15, said Nur-E-Shams, a spokesman of the bank.