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TCP Global-funded microloan programs empower people to change their lives
27,175 Loans
11,120 Borrowers
98.81% Repayment
A slight increase in family earnings enables children to stay in school, and families to avoid hunger, afford clean drinking water, and access health care. In too many communities the only loan option is from daily lenders who sometimes charge 10% per day. Once borrowers access affordable loans, they expand their businesses and use increased earnings to better care for their families.
Freed from abject poverty, borrowers implement what they already know to improve their quality of life. Many work to improve their communities as well. When we put resources into the hands of the entrepreneurial poor, they implement positive, sustainable changes to benefit their families and communities. We believe there is a wealth of talent ready to address climate change, economic migration, food insecurity and other global challenges once they escape abject poverty.
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Immense Missed Opportunities - IMO draws on the author's 23 years of experience building sustainable micro-loan programs in marginalized communities around the world. Based on her experience, and backed by research and recommendations from renowned experts, IMO identifies the vast and largely untapped potential for high-impact, low-cost interventions to reduce poverty, food insecurity, economic migration and gender-based violence. Extreme poverty has marginalized people who are living on the front lines of those problems and who have, perhaps the greatest potential to help solve those problems.
What could you do if you wanted to improve the lives of thousands or millions of people fast? After the Peace Corps, how to help those most in need was the question that drove me. So I searched out the best projects in the world, analyzed them, and then tested what and how to do it in more than 20 countries of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. This book is a recipe for success and a show-and-tell, mostly pictures, of my experiments with the truth, quoting Gandhi. I am still experimenting. A team of us started a new community help project on the Uganda-South Sudan border this week. Once you have a recipe, the process is easy and success is almost guaranteed. Read the book and give people a hand up in life!
During the last 35 years, green manure/cover crops (gm/ccs) have become recognized widely as an important agricultural technology for the developing world. Faced with so many promising possibilities, even well-informed agronomists find it difficult to choose the best gm/cc system for a given situation. This happens in part because, unfortunately, some 20 different factors must be considered in selecting the gm/cc systems that will have the greatest potential in any given situation. These factors include everything from local food habits, current market conditions, the dominant cropping systems and the major weeds…