Grameen Kalyan is an embodiment of the vision of Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Laureate in peace. It is a Grameen peer organization set up in 1996 as a not-for-profit company. Its primary goal is to provide a series of improvement and cost effective welfare and healthcare services to Grameen Bank (GB) members, employees & other villagers living in the terrirtory and also support other Grameen peer companies dedicated to poverty alleviation. In order to afford the poor an opportunity to engage in income generating activities in good health effectively utilizing extended micro-credit, Grameen Bank initiated an action reseearc project to develop a rural health program (RHP) in 1993. After three years of research it was handed over to Grameen Kalyan in 1996 to create a momentum in Micro Health Insurance Program in Bangladesh.

Grameen Kalyan is committed to provide basic curative and preventive health services aimed at improving their delivery near the doorsteps of all in rural Bangladesh by removing existing constraints. Grameen Kalyan has been providing primary health care services among the poor people at rural level through its micro health insurance project since 1996, which has earned a significant reputation among the poor people of rural Bangladesh. At present GK has been operating the low cost primary health care program through 37-health centers at union level of 32 upazillas of the country.