Help lowest-income entrepreneurs build assets

http://PBS.org/kbyu/smallfortunes  Small Fortunes highlights concrete ways to establish action groups to create prosperity.

Microfinance provides financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets & improve their standard of living:  www.VillageBanking.org    http://Grameen-info.org   http://GFUSA.org   http://MakingCents.org   http://MicroBusinessUSA.org   http://MicroCreditSummit.org   http://Opportunity.org   http://Unitus.com   

Microcredit views people as clients, not beneficiaries & seeks to provide them with the means to support themselves through dignified self-employment.  Regular meetings & group support contribute to the 95+ percent repayment rate:  www.Rotary5340.org/foundation/microcredit.htm  Matching grants for 12 microcredit/village bank projects.  A loan of $4 to a landless & homeless woman in Nepal resulted in a home & education for her children within a short time.  She bought a comb, a mirror & a pair of scissors & put her husband into business as a barber.  

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”  Mahatma Gandhi:

http://CreatingEnterprise.com  Philippines:  breaking the chains of family poverty.

http://AscendAlliance.org  Ethiopia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador:  empowering those in need to save their children by ascending out of poverty.

http://CauseForHope.org  Honduras:  enabling people to become self-reliant.

http://Eagle-Condor.org  Peru:  see Machu Pichu & participate in humanitarian projects.

http://EmpoweringNations.org  Wave of Hope Thailand; plus Ghana & Panama:  empowering the poorest through education & relief.

http://Enterprise-Mentors.org  Latin America & the Philippines:  in 2006 helped 29,000+ families journey toward self-reliance.

http://Help-International.org  Uganda, Latin America:  self-determination, development & empowerment;  training a new generation for a world of prosperity.

http://LifeWorkInternational.org  Nicaragua:  helping families become more self-reliant by buildling character, capacity & community.

http://SisterCommunity.org  Ouelessebougou, West Africa; Mali:  assistance directly to those in need.

http://Yehu.org  Kenya:  microfinance for 7,000 entrepreneurs in 100 villages.

www.Google.org Entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty & services to the poor. Making the planet & population healthier & more equitable. Believe, Begin & Become business plan competitions in Ghana & Tanzania. Investing $625+K to organizations supporting entrepreneurship & other global development activities.

www.HumanSecurity.org  Realizing a world where all people live free from fear & want.  Those living in open & democratic societies can work to advance freedom & human security in troubled areas.