Shikokho Microloan Initiative Celebration
Friday, March 02, 2012, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
| Location: | Geneva Hall, The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, One Chevy Chase Circle, NW, Washington, DC US 20015 |
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A rephrasing of a familiar proverb: teach a woman to fish and you feed her entire family for a lifetime.
Last fall the Shikokho Women’s Group and CCPC teamed up with a local non-profit, the Women’s Microfinance Initiative (WMI), which not only loans money, but also provides training and support to impoverished women in East Africa as they create and run their own businesses, enabling the women and their families to thrive in a sustainable way. WMI has a sterling reputation in microlending, achieving a 100% repayment rate for over 4,000 loans in Uganda and Kenya. The new Shikokho WMI program launched in December with a group of 20 “borrowers” taking small loans offered by CCPC and WMI through matching funding. Another group of 20 is expected to start in April, with more in the future.
The CCPC Mission Committee and Shikokho Mission Team invite you to celebrate this new beginning on March 2.
- Bring the family for a casual Friday night supper.
- Enjoy the music of our fabulous guitarists, The Revelations.
- Learn more about WMI and how you can support this exciting program, in partnership with CCPC, in Shikokho. WMI President Robyn Nietert will be there to explain how WMI’s microfinance program “builds assets to better lives” through local enterprise— improving education, nutrition, and health for families and stability for communities.
- You’ll also see moving and hopeful short films on the borrowers’ successes by CCPC’s own Erin Kelly (Univ. of Michigan ’10) who completed an internship with WMI last summer in Uganda .
- High school and college students will learn about internship and service project opportunities both here and in East Africa
Want to help? Contact Sally Kelly, or 301-656-6634.
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