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Nearly three billion poor people in developing countries lack access to the basic financial services – such as a small loan or a safe place to save – needed to help them manage their precarious lives. At the core of microfinance is a fundamental belief that access to financial services empowers the poor by reducing their vulnerability and giving them choices. Whether they save or borrow, evidence around the world shows that when poor people have access to financial services, they choose to invest these savings or loans into building a range of assets that will make them less vulnerable. Such assets can be sending their children to school, buying medicines and more nutritious food, fixing a leaky roof, or building income-earning potential by investing in their own enterprises. In essence, access to financial services enables poor people to build their own way out of poverty. (About CGAP 1/2).

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There is nothing « micro » about poverty: The numbers astound: one in two human beings lives on $2 a day, or less. As many lack public sanitation. Two billion want for electricity, a billion more for clean water. The challenge is immense, but the fight against poverty often begins at the smallest level … (full text);
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(About CGAP 2/2): Who We Are: CGAP is a consortium of 33 public and private funding organizations – bilateral and multilateral development agencies, private foundations, and international financial institutions – working together to expand poor people’s access to financial services.

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• assistance in curriculum and materials development;
• training of professional groups;
• research and evaluation;
• clearinghouse of education and training materials;
• networking human rights advocates and educators.

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Link: The HREA on the Cathalogue for Philantrophy (History etc.).

Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women

SPARROW is:

• A trust set up in 1988 [Register Number E-11958] in Maharashtra to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material.
• A live archives reaching out to schools, colleges, women’s groups and other organisations.
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• A forum for discussions.
• An interactive space
• A daring flight into unexplored areas of experience and expression.

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Profile: The idea of setting up SPARROW took root in 1988. Before that, those who are now the trustees of SPARROW had met several times and discussed the possibilities of setting up a Women’s Archives with a difference.

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