Microcredit

International Citizen Service, Burkina Faso, Kabeela

18 Aug Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Posted at 15:55h in Business, Community, Microcredit, Social Enterprise, Volunteering, Women by Rebecca Grattage 0 Comments

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My Experiences as an International Citizen Service Volunteer in Burkina Faso During the summer of 2015 I spent 3 months volunteering for “Kabeela”, a non-profit organization based in Burkina Faso, West Africa. My volunteering placement was facilitated by ICS (International Citizen Service), a UK government funded...

Microcredit, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

21 Jul Interning at the Bank for the Poor, Bangladesh

Posted at 13:03h in Business, Community, Exploitation, Freedom, Microcredit, Philanthropy, Poverty, Social Enterprise, Social Justice, Women by Tim Stackhouse 1 Comment

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Lessons from my Internship at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Grameen Bank was founded in 1983. However, its story began seven years earlier in 1976. Muhammad Yunus, then an economics Professor at the University of Chittagong, decided to experiment with the notion of extending small amounts...