This claim by founder sam daley harris is extraordinary when you
reflect on what mcs, est 1997, has achieved - eg its ten year goal to
reach out to 100 million poorest families with microcredit as a system
empowering them to end poverty
Let's channel the yes we can spirit - so much to unite whether you
are african or american or both, northern or southern or western or
eastern or a mixture - Let 010s reverse the spin we're in from the
mispent 00s decade of wall street and crashing systems . My teens were
inspired by man's race to the moon; I believe that it is 10 times
simpler and more inspiring that my daughter's teens celebrate the
human race to end poverty
More importantly here's a message from sam daley-harris- in part it
responds to a cheeky question, what did he, Queen Sofia of Spain and
Ingrid Munro of
http://jamiibora.org talk about at their recent
meeting confirming mcs 2010 in kenya and mcs 2011 in Spain:
Sam Daley-Harris:
I only had a brief conversation with Queen Sofia after the signing
ceremony and panel (which included Ingrid Munro of Jamii Bora) on May
21st in Madrid. Queen Sofia asked Ingrid if she could come to the
Africa/Middle East Microcredit Summit in Nairobi and meet some of
Ingrid's clients while she is there. Of course, this is not yet a
commitment to actually be there.
A few updates on Nairobi:
1. Two Canadian parliamentarians wrote the Canadian High Commissioner
to Kenya and asked him to host a briefing with Ingrid on the Summit
for all industrialized country ambassadors in Kenya which he will do
in July.
2. The Kenya Minister for Women and Children's Affairs insisted that
we move the Summit away from early March because it conflicted with
the Commission on the Status of Women meeting at the UN in NYC and the
Minsiter wants to bring all the women ministers from Africa to the
Summit which is now April 7-10, 2010 in Nairobi. Prof. Yunus is
confirmed for those dates.
3. Ingrid spoke with a group Parliamentarians from the Great Lakes
Region of Africa who are focused on peace called the Amani Group.
They became very excited about the Summit and want to participate.
4. Ingrid spoke two Sundays ago to 600 Rotarians at an international
conference in Birmingham, England and received a standing ovation.
They are excited about sponsoring African practitioners to come to the
Summit.
This will the best, biggest, and most groundbreaking regional summit
ever.
Best
Sam
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