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2008 Microfinance Awards & Roundtable Press Kit
Media Contact:
Liselle Yorke, lyorke[at]grameenfoundation.org
202-628-3560, ext. 128 or 202-549-3200 (mobile)
Grameen Foundation is honoring a microfinance pioneer and two microfinance organizations that have played pivotal roles in helping poor women access much needed financial services at its 2008 Microfinance Awards luncheon.
Nurjahan Begum of Grameen Bank will receive the Susan M. Davis Lifetime Achievement Award for her efforts to organize women in Bangladesh’s poorest villages and for fighting for the rights of disadvantaged women for more than 30 years.
Mitra Bisnis Keluarga (MBK) Ventura of Indonesia will receive the Excellence in Microfinance Award and Al Tadamun of Egypt will receive the Grameen Foundation and Grameen-Jameel Pan-Arab Pioneer in Microfinance Award. Both MBK Ventura and Al-Tadamun are emerging as leading practitioners of Grameen-style microfinance in two of the three largest developing countries in the Islamic world.
The honorary co-chairs are His Excellency M. Humayun Kabir, the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the U.S., and His Excellency Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, the Ambassador of Indonesia to the U.S.
The honorees and other microfinance and international development leaders will also weigh in on the impact of the ongoing global crisis on the world’s poor and what microfinance institutions can learn from the demise of financial giants at the annual Knowledge Sharing Roundtable which precedes the Awards luncheon.
Event Schedule
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Cosmos Club
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Knowledge Sharing Roundtable
The Global Economic Crisis: Are MFIs Immune?
The world is in the midst of a global economic crisis that appears to be deeper and more widespread than at any time in modern history. What does this mean for the world’s poor and poorest? How is it affecting microfinance? How can microfinance institutions survive the crisis? What can MFIs learn from the demise of financial giants?
Featured Speakers:-
• Nurjahan Begum, General Manager, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
• Reham Farouk, Executive Director, Al Tadamun, Egypt
• Dr. Shafiq Dhanani, Chief Commissioner and Founder, MBK Ventura, Indonesia
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Reception
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Awards Luncheon
Grameen Foundation : Resource Center : Newsroom : 2008 Awards Press Kit
Grameen Foundation uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world's poorest people. With tiny loans and financial services, we help the poor, mostly women, start businesses and escape poverty. Our global network of 55 microfinance institution (MFI) partners including our Growth Guarantee partners has touched more than 34 million people in 24 countries. In addition, we introduced and now sustain technology initiatives (Mifos and Village Phone) in Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, bringing our total country outreach to 28.
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