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ACCION eNews: Reaching New Frontiers in India and Brazil :)
November 2009
ACCION Invests in India’s Poorest
ACCIONistas enjoy the challenge of bringing economic empowerment to new frontiers, which is why a new partnership with Saija Finance Private Limited, a start-up microfinance organization in Bihar, India, has ACCION staff feeling especially motivated.
Saija is the only microfinance institution in Bihar, an Indian state that is home to a staggering 90 million people, with a 90 percent illiteracy rate. Bihar is one of the most oppressively impoverished regions in the world, with nearly half its people living on less than a dollar a day – one of the world's 'hard' places to work and where ACCION believes its demonstration effect will encourage other microfinance organizations to follow.
Click here to read the press release >>
https://www.accion.org//Page.aspx?pid=1867&srctid=1&erid=1580443
ACCION Gets the Green Light in Brazil
Just last week, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a presidential decree giving ACCION the green light to begin operations in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas. Despite a strong ecotourism industry, Amazonas is still the second-poorest state in the country, and microfinance has only reached 8-10 percent of the estimated one million microentrepreneurs who could benefit from financial services.
ACCION’s work in Manaus will focus on finding innovative ways to deliver credit and other financial services to low-income people in the region, while simultaneously ensuring that the economic development of Manaus’s people is in harmony with the environmental protection of its nearby rainforest. ACCION plans to begin lending in early 2010.
Click here to learn more about this milestone >>
https://www.accion.org/Page.aspx?pid=1871
Microloans for Women: A Source of Empowerment and Social Change
Microfinance organizations agree that when oppressed women are economically empowered, they can build thriving and sustainable communities while enjoying greater equality.
Read the full article to learn more >>
https://www.accion.org/Page.aspx?pid=1876
HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance
Register now for the HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance, high-level strategy and leadership training for those shaping the microfinance industry. Apply online by Jan 1st, 2010. The course will be held at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 5–10th, 2010.
Click here for more information and to apply >>
Spotlight on our Supporters
This past summer, ACCION took a group of dedicated supporters to Colombia to meet clients of our partner Finamérica and to see microfinance in action. We interviewed ACCION Board Chair, Diana Taylor, in the latest issue of Ventures about her thoughts on the delegation. Click here to read the full interview >>
It takes careful planning and long-term involvement to build lasting solutions to poverty. That is why the members of our Sustainer's Society are so critical to our success. By becoming a Sustainer and donating as little as $15 a month, you can give us the steady support we need to expand our reach around the world.
Steady support from Sustainer's Society members will allow us to bring desperately needed microfinance services to more than 500,000 people in India and Africa.
Even a monthly gift of just $15 can make a big difference for people living in poverty.
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ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need – microloans, business training and other financial services – to work their way out of poverty. A world pioneer in microfinance, ACCION issued its first microloan in 1973 in Brazil . Today, ACCION’s partner microfinance institutions serve more than 3.7 million poor entrepreneurs per year in 23 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States .
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