SETTING UP POOR PEOPLE FOR LIFE 1
June 19, 2008 by ren
Filed under Corporate Finance
It has been said (paraphrasing an old saying): give a poor man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, set him up to fish and you’ve set him up for life.
This is exactly what ACCION has achieved and continues to achieve. This is why the b5media Business Channel is holding a 24-hour Great Blog Off (to kick off at 12:01 am, 20 June, at each blogger’s time zone) to promote ACCION and, with your help, generate donations.
From 1998 through 2007, ACCION has served 6.2 million small borrowers (average loan size in Latin America & the Caribbean: $954, …read more
