Simply visit http://www.kiva.org/invitedto/accountants_for_social_good/by/emofund to help ASG surpass their goal of 5,000 loans and get involved in
microlending.
Kiva Arab Youth is a new initiative of Silatech and Kiva, the world's largest
microlending platform.
Several
microlending programs help small business owners access small amounts of capital from 1,000ドル up to 50,000ドル.
Microlending is certainly a useful supplement to tested anti-poverty policy instruments - and one that pays an extra dividend insofar as it aids women.
But Olopade makes a fresh point: That the Foundation's biggest weakness may be its traditional, grant-based approach to do-gooderism, which mostly ignores
microlending, 'social entrepreneurship' and other market-oriented approaches to charity."
Future donations will help us not only assist the entrepreneurs, but also build a full-blown educational experience for our students by creating a STUDENT FELLOWS PROGRAM, permitting enrolled students to travel to the areas that benefit from the disbursed loans and to see the impact of
microlending to the poor first-hand.
I describe the HealthStore Foundation program as a "microfranchise" model, because this model shares many of tile unique characteristics of the
microlending efforts led by the Grameen Bank.
In Pokuase, a town of about 30,000 people outside the capital city of Accra, a
microlending organization called the Women's Trust had set up a program to offer scholarships so young women can stay in school.