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Angola
Angola’s national microcredit campaign is aimed
at contributing to poverty reduction through promoting
awareness of the opportunities offered by microcredit
programs to target groups. The Ministry of Family
and the Promotion of Women will execute a plan coordinated
with other partners to finance small-scale commercial,
agricultural and fishing activities.
Nigeria
Nigeria plans to hold a national microcredit
conference in 2005 to commemorate the Year,
and will launch local campaigns to solicit
the support of local government and the private
sector for the microfinance sector. There
are plans to establish a Central Bank-Donor
Community Microfinance Consultative Forum
that will harmonize and focus donor community
support for microfinance projects in the
country.
Mauritania
Mauritania is convening a national forum on the
challenges facing the growth of microcredit.
Promotional activities will also target rural
and semi-urban areas as well as the female
workers who have been recently laid off in
the textile industry.
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Aishwarya Rai, actress and Year of Microcredit spokesperson
"Throughout my travels, I have learned that we can
do much more to help women and children who are economically vulnerable.
By giving low-income women access to credit and savings, they can
increase their incomes, build assets and better the lives of their
families. They are able to spend their money on what is important
to them: medical care, better food and education for their children.
In my home country of India, I have seen the beauty in empowering
women. It is up to us to give them a chance and along with the United
Nations and microfinance we are doing just that." |
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