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• Maruja : Peru

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 163
  $0 of $350 raised. Started raising funds on Dec 17, 2009 Our group member MARUJA is 53 years old and divorced See more here: Maruja : Peru
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• The Principles of Microfinance: Changing, Saving lives!

  
  Catholic Business Journal — Authority: 123
  by Marc D’Silva (see bio at end) Empowering Women through Microfinance One Billion People Struggle to Survive on Less than a Dollar a Day Imagine trying to get through the day without spending more than one dollar.  No latte.  No newspaper.  No taxi.  Most of us living in the United States will never have ...
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• A day in the life of a loan officer

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  Jeremy Lapedis, KF9, Guatemala On Wednesday I traveled with Aura, a loan officer.  My main goal was to get some signatures from Kiva borrowers so that we could use their photos in a press release.  What I ended up getting, along with the signatures, was a glimpse into Aura’s life Since getting the signatures ...
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• Where to find Happiness

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  Sharing snack with the Galvez family I have just spent the last three days sweating, bumping, and meeting new borrowers out in the field. My butt is exhausted from sitting on endless metal seats transporting me from one borrower interview to the next.  I have met some incredible women along the way, but I have ...
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• Poco a Poco, no?

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  By Kimia Raafat, KF9 Ecuador Like the galloping horsemen on a Ralph Lauren polo shirt, Kiva’s leafy “loans that change lives” logo has come to symbolize a certain status in the world of microfinance institutions (MFIs).  The Kiva stamp of approval signifies that after careful due diligence , an institution ...
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• In face of climate change, adapt…

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 109
  Asif  Dowla blogged about his recent White Paper examining the critical role microfinance institutions (MFIs) can play in mitigating the impact of climate change on poor people for the CGAP blog . As the events at the Copenhagen summit on climate change continue to unfold this week, I think it is important that ...
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• Day Two: Grameen Power and Moving to the Field

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 109
  Muhammad Yunus and Royston Braganza Royston and I spent the first few hours on Monday back in the Grameen Complex in Dhaka.  The most exciting meeting was with two retired Grameen Bank officials — Fazley Rabbi and, briefly, Abser Kamal – both of whom now work with Grameen Shakti (Energy).  Shakti, a sister ...
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• In face of climate change, adapt…

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 114
  As the events at the Copenhagen summit on climate change continue to unfold this week, I think it is important that we look at the relationship between climate change and microfinance. The microfinance industry has been almost silent about climate change. Even in Bangladesh, where microfinance institutions ...
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• Mother Superior Gets Published

  
  IPE at UNC — Authority: 131
  Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, was a cultural anthropologist who did her dissertation research in Indonesia (which is how young Barack ended up there). Now, 15 years after her death, Ms. Dunhams work is being published in book form for the first time, by Duke University Press. Theres some obvious cynicism ...
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• Four problems with prevailing SHG model

  
  Urbanomics — Authority: 129
  That the existing Self Help Groups (SHGs) based micro-finance model has achieved remarkable successes is delivering both social and basic economic empowerment of women in many developing nations cannot be disputed. However, the prevailing model, especially in the government led micro-finance schemes, suffers from ...
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• Africa: The Last Frontier for Microfinance?

  
  Asset Building Program: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 116
  Author(s):  Shweta Banerjee December 15, 2009 Undoubtedly, Africa is the last frontier for microfinance. Almost all of Africa’s poor are unbanked; in Ethiopia for example, only 1% of the rural ...
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• ACTED is now part of the SEEP Network

  
  ACTED — Authority: 128
  ACTED is now part of the SEEP Network - ACTED is now a member of the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP). The SEEP Network connects microenterprise practitioners from around the world to develop access to sustainable income in every household. ACTED looks forward to building constructive relationships ...
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• A Lesson in Pottery

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  By Edward O. Coambs Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Philippines Please give the video a few minutes to load, it is well worth the watch. Lorna Sagario has just shared her business with you. She makes clay pots for a living. When I came to center 35 to observe their weekly repayment meeting I was ...
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• Women, Microfinance and the Middle East

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  By Mohammed Al-Shawaf, KF9 Palestine   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton states that “microenterpise is uniquely designed to empower women…”  The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls the oppression of women worldwide the “human rights cause of our time” and encourages people ...
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• Back in Bangladesh

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 109
  Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below is Part Two of this journey to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners ...
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• It’s the little things that make big dreams happen

  
  zanox Official Blog — Authority: 111
  Christmas is all about dreams, isn’t it? This is why we want to show you how easy it is to make dreams happen today. Last year , we started investing in businesses around the world via online microfinance platforms.  In 2009, we supported 15 different projects with more than 50 entrepreneurs. You might have ...
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• What Happens at a Repayment Meeting in the DR

  
  My Thoughts on Microfinance, Life, Web 2.0, Blogging, and Business — Authority: 119
  From the Kiva Fellows Blog, here’s a video detailing what happens at a repayment meeting in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic:I went to a Bank of Hope repayment meeting in this exact spot in November of 2008, so very cool to see the video!
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• So, what is discussed in these repayment meetings?

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  By Thomas Gold, KF9, Dominican Republic I am quite a picky person when it comes about writing. I really make it a point to write as properly as possible, even in a non-native language. Therefore, when I am writing an entry for the Kivafellows blog, I use to plan it, prepare a draft, then write it in French (my ...
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• Welcome to Senegal – the land of ‘Teranga’

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 432
  By Nicki Goh, KF9 Senegal After more than 2 months of waiting, the time has finally come for me to put into practice all that I learned back at the KF9 training week in San Francisco. As I sit here at the beginning of my second week working at Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance (SEM) I remember the nervous ...
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• Governor SBP Highlights The Role of Microfinance Institutions

  
  A Pakistan News — Authority: 565
  Governor SBP Highlights The Role of Microfinance Institutions , Syed Salim Raza, Governor State Bank of Pakistan has said that microfinance banks/institutions have a key role to play in creating economic opportunities for the poorest sections of the society by broadening their outreach. Addressing on “Economic ...
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