Rebuilding Haiti with Microfinance (Video)
Partnership brings greater social impact. This post features a video.
In my last post, “Reinforcing Resilience, Rebuilding Haiti,” I described the partnership The MasterCard Foundation had formed with Fonkoze. It’s intended to stimulate the country’s economy—from the ground up—by enabling extremely poor women to rebuild or create livelihoods.
To demonstrate the impact of this partnership, we produced the video featured below:
I hope you agree it’s a valuable tool for educating people about microfinance, generally, and how it is empowering Haitians to contribute to their country’s recovery.
Reeta Roy is president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a private, independent foundation based in Toronto. Its global mandate is to enable people living in poverty, particularly youth, to improve their lives – and the lives of their families and communities – by expanding their access to microfinance and education.
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