www.sem-fund.org The SEM Fund, or the Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance Fund, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing low-interest business loans aimed at strengthening the business skills and livelihoods of highly motivated microentrepreneurs that are excluded from the commercial banking system. Currently, our focus is...
Watch this 14-minute video to learn how Unitus works to alleviate global poverty through microfinance.
Microfinance products such as savings accounts, microcredit loans (usually $50 to $150), and health insurance empower the poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Through microfinance, they can secure better nutrition, education, healthcare and ...
This video produced in late 2006, provides highlights of the early efforts to use mobile phones to facilitate banking services for rural bank clients in the Philippines. This effort has been led by the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) Program (a USAID-assist program with Chemonics Inter...
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For many of the world's poorest people, access to credit is their golden opportunity to forge a better life for their families with microfinance, a proven poverty reduction program. Since 1997, Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting,...
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For many of the world's poorest people, access to credit is their golden opportunity to forge a better life for their families with microfinance, a proven poverty reduction program. Since 1997, Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, ...
Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, launched the company in 1998 to offer small loans to very poor borrowers. Some 10 years later, SKS has become India's fastest growing microfinance institution (MFI), with more than two million borrowers. In the next two years, Akula would like SKS Microfinance, whose backers include venture capital...
This video describes a bit about the Grameen Foundation and their efforts to create an Open Source Software solution to facilitate the use of microfinance to alleviate worlds poverty.
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This is a compilation of different processes of microfinance organizations that are working with Kiva. From taking picture of the beneficiary to uploading the profiles.
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MicroPlace hosted a conference with microfinance voices from the field. A talk from Africa on the power of microfinance to alleviate global poverty.
Produced, edited, and reported by Jessica Hagerty,
Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa. 19087 USA, with assistance from Christina Michaluk, Vickie Papageorge, Grayce Turnbach, and Diana Vilares.
Soundtrack by Amani (www.amanikids.org).
Microfinance or microlending is one of the key vehicles by which poor people around the world obtain fair financial s...
What does BRS? What are a credit and savings cooperative and a health mutual? Who are the borrowers from a microfinance institution? And how does the co-op ensure the follow-up of its clients?
Through Belgian non-governmental organisation (NGO) Louvain Développement, BRS is supporting the launch of a mutuality in the West-African country of Beni...
Alex Counts, President of the Grameen Foundation talks to iinnovate about how technology has been changing microfinance. For more information check out www.iinnovatecast.com.
Microfinance Podcast is produced by MicroSave. A senior microfinance specialist of CGAP, Syed Hashemi is sharing his thoughts on why microfinance is such a great success in Bangladesh, and on the role that Grameen Bank played in establishing microfinance as an industry.
We also introduce MicroSave as a unique project that promotes the development ...
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Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Development Services (SEEDS) has financed the installation of around 52,000 solar home systems (SHSs) in rural ...
Meet a MicroPlace microfinance borrower from Cambodia
Vikram Akula is CEO of SKS Microfinance, an MFI serving 1.5 million clients in India. He tells Global X that his passion for changing the world started when as a young boy, he realized that something as simple as 12 grains of rice could make a difference for a family.
After working for an NGO, he went back to the University of Chicago to get his ...
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- To date, 17 million Africans have died of AIDS. How can anyone even comprehend a number like this?
- 25 million Africans (many of whom are children) are infected with the HIV virus. More than the Holocaust and the tsunamis.
- Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies of malaria - that's 3000 children EVERY DAY.
- ...
http://www.globalchange.com Women's self-help groups. Microloans and microfinance schemes. Financial security. India new bank and financial institutions. Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Mexico. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
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Meet a MicroPlace microfinance borrower from Cambodia
Governments from Brazil to Bosnia have launched massive microfinance programs, and commercial banks like ABN AMRO, HSBC and Citicorp are rushing down-market, which could increase access to credit for the poor. Some 500 million poor worldwide have reportedly benefited from $6 billion in micro-loans, which supporters want to ramp up to $300 billion. ...
ACCION USA client Talmadge Fraser of Miami tells his story of how microfinance has improved his business and his life.
This video shows our visit to a village 90 miles outside of Bangalore (India) where a "Microfinance" company is making small business loans (about $200USD) to the women in the village. This scene shows individual women applying for a loan while the other women in the village agree to guarantee the loan. Loans are used to finance income-producing ...
Chronique de tous les jours: microfinancement, coopératives et mutualités.
Que fait la BRS? Comment fonctionnent une coopérative d'épargne et crédit et une mutuelle de santé en Afrique? Comment s'y prennent-ils chaque jour avec leurs clients? La réponse sera donnée dans ce film BRS.
La BRS soutient via l'organisation non gouvernementale ...
Kiva.org is a non-profit web site revolutionizing the fight against global poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to connect with and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world. As an exceptional social software solution, Kiva acts as the world's first person-toperson lending marketplace for the poor. Any...
Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry describes this growing global phenomenon that is bringing hope to emerging markets.
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Microfinance is a major instrument for entrepreneurs and individuals to escape poverty. Oikocredit and ING joined their forces in 2004 to best support institutions around the globe with financing and technical assistance. Oikocredit is a socially responsible investment opportunity that is today recognised as on of the world's largest source of priv...
