during the liberation war of bangladesh in 1971, yunus and other people from bangladesh living in the united states started a citizens committee and controlled the bangladesh information center to find help for the war. he published the "bangladesh newsletter" from his home in nashville. after the war, yunus returned to bangladesh and was given a job with the governments' planning commission which was controlled by nurul islam. he thought the job was boring so he took a job at chittagong university as head of the economics department. he worked with poverty reduction after he saw the bangladesh famine of 1974, and started a research project to help people who lived in the countryside. in 1975, he started a nabajug tebhaga khamar (new era three share farm) which the government called the packaged input programme. yunus and his friends started the "gram sarkar" (the village government) programme to make the farm project better.