Social Bank in Brasilia project

Companheiros das Americas (mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR)
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:31:09 EST 

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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:31:09 EST
From: Companheiros das Americas <mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR>
Subject:      Social Bank in Brasilia project
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L


As you know (from my last message, last week), we (Partners of the


Americas Brasilia/Washington DC Partner Committee), with other


local NGOs and with the Government of Distrito Federal (= Brasilia,


the Brazilian capital), are developing a pilot project in a poor satellite


city nearby.






The project (to fight the hunger and misery there, and increase the


citizenship awareness) includes a social bank, to lend money to


the "unbankable" popular entrepreneurs. About this, I have demanded


(in that message) information and am receiving, since then, many


responses, very interesting, giving me new directions to find more


information. And I am following all these advises.






But I would like to know the very address of the Grameen Bank, in


Bangladesh, to be informed about their latest achievements and


evaluations, and their present rules, criteria and orientations.


World Neighbors sent me a long interview with Muhammad Yunus,


Grameen Bank founder, very interesting, but from May 1991.


VITA also has sent important information about their projects on


micro enterprise development, another high priority matter for us.






Soon I will send to you many information about Brazilian


present culture and problems, which may help you to better


understand us, and yourselves too.










Thank you, again.