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Oikocredit USA Fall Workshop in Boston

Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM (ET)

Auburndale, MA

Oikocredit USA Fall Workshop in Boston

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Join Oikocredit USA at The Walker Center for a workshop on:

Microfinance, Poverty Alleviation & Social Performance: Lessons from the Field

This is a great opportunity to learn how Oikocredit and its volunteers, through the use of microfinance, are helping communities throughout the world because we know that the world's poor don't lack ability -- they lack opportunity!  

Registration opens at 8:30 am

The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. with lunch to follow.

The workshop includes presentations by Terry Provance, Executive Director of Oikocredit USA  and James Kurz, a Senior Advisor with Fonkoze, a microfinance institution in Haiti.  James has been actively involved in Fonkoze's work with clients following the January 12th earthquake, and will present a keynote address on "Microfinance in a Post-Disaster Context."

The workshop will also include break-out sessions on selected topics.  

We look forward to seeing you!


Other workshops will be held across the country on the following dates

October 2             San Francisco

October 9             Pittsburgh, PA

October 28           Seattle

October 30           Washington, DC

November 6          Chicago

Visit our website for locations and event details!

If you have any questions or comments or would like to know how you can get involved in this event please email our Outreach Coordinator, Polly Hamlen at phamlen@oikocredit.org

To read more information about Oikocredit USA please visit our website at http://oikocreditusa.org

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Walker Center for Ecumenical Exchange
144 Hancock Street
Auburndale, MA 02466

Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM (ET)


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Oikocredit USA



Oikocredit is one of the world’s largest sources of private funding to the microfinance sector. We provide credit to trade cooperatives, fair trade organizations and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world. We also lend working capital to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and co-ops in over 70 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. In turn, they dispense life-changing loans to the poor and disadvantaged, with a special emphasis on rural areas and women.

Oikocredit is a pioneer in microfinance - for 35 years we have built a social vision that connects lenders to borrowers to create lasting change.  

www.oikocreditusa.org