Message-ID: <764_9608150615@baobab.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:00:49 -0400 From: Rafe Ronkin <mailto:rronkin@BAOBAB.COM> Subject: Hello (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
The following material is extracted from the July 1996 issue of DevelopNet News, VITA's newsletter:<start extract>
MICROCREDIT SUMMIT PREPARATORY MEETING
In preparation for the Microcredit Summit to be held in Washington, D.C., next February, a meeting will be held in the same city 20 and 21 September 1996. This is the second preparatory meeting for the Summit. It will provide the Microcredit Summit Organizing Committee with infor- mation and insights for the final draft of the Summit Declaration and Plan of Action. Plenary sessions will focus on business planning for institutional capacity, commercial finance and microcredit, and building full financial services for the poor. Persons wishing to attend the pre- paratory meeting must register by 1 September. Since the space is limi- ted to 600 participants, registration will be on a first-come-first- serve basis.
The Summit will meet from 2 to 4 February 1997. It aims to bring together all those interested in dramatically expanding the reach of microcredit and other financial services to the world's poorest fami- lies. The goal is to reach 100 million of such families, especially the women, with credit for self-employment by 2005. The Summit will define a strategy for all players involved in microenterprise support -- public, private, or nonprofit -- to accomplish this goal within the decade.
Information: The Microcredit Summit Secretariat, c/o Results Educational Fund, 236 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20002; tel. +1 (202) 546-1900, fax +1 (202) 546-3228, e-mail mailto:<microcreditsum@action.org>.
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R.R. Ronkin VITA Volunteer
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.devel-l
> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:02:06 +0000
> From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR>
> Subject: Re: Hello (fwd)
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> At 18:30 09/08/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>Does anyone have information on the following conference. I am unable to
>>locate the original message. Thanks.
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>> About 8 months ago, you forwarded some information to me about a big
>>micro-economic conference in Washington DC. In October, there would be a
>>600-person planning session, with the full conference in Feb 97. The
>>contact was definitely a Brazilian guy.
>> Do you have any recollection where you found the info? My brother wants
>>to attend.
>>
>>Kendall
>>
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