Ain’t no microfinance like an Oxfam microfinance ’cause an Oxfam microfinance don’t stop

One more link- this is about Oxfam and their microfinance efforts. Apparently, they are quite successful!

Another look at what we’ve been talking about…

A video’s worth a thousand words….

Mzungus Can’t Jump

You know how when you learn a word, it suddenly starts popping up everywhere? Well, it’s funny- I never thought much about microfinance til Julie reccomended Kiva, and now I just ran into this Nicholas Kristof NYTimes blog entry on it. (I freaking love Nicholas Kristof….) He asked his readers if they had any thoughts [...]

DECISION 5

All right, so we were talking about microfinance, right ? (good article here)…Before I got sidetracked by other reports… I’ve been reflecting on something from  the site for Grameen Bank, the group founded by the Nobel prize winner Mohammed Yunos. The bank has these “16 Decisions” that recipients of their loans are supposed to sign on [...]

A Big Hand for the Little Loan

KIVA .What do they do? Well, have you heard of micro-loans, micro-finance? You know, a bank or a group gives a small loan to someone, usually in a developing nation, so she or he can start a business, become self-sufficient, and get out of poverty?  That’s the basic mission of this group. And it’s an important one. Microfinance is vital in [...]