Loans to Wives of Political Prisoners

   
 

I am trying to arrange a small interest-free loan for the wives of political prisoners held in Manila. The women plan to use the loan to buy a sewing machine and set up a little shop. I have the money ready to send and I am not asking for funds.

Although I do not require the money to be repaid to me, I should like the women to understand that it is not a simple hand-out, and have arranged that a human-rights NGO – Task Force of the Detainees of the Philippines – should receive repayments in order to lend to other needy groups.

The group of women are barely literate, and regular business plans are quite inappropriate for them. If you have any simple agreement forms that I might copy, I should be grateful. I do not require anything else.

I am a British subject, resident in UK and would be glad of any useful information about sending money to Asia.

Marilyn Miller
millerm@dsl.pipex.com
February 14, 2005

 
   

Keen on Training

   
 

I am Abhijit Das, working as Project Coordinator of 3H (Health, Hunger & Humanity) Project at Kolkata, India. The said project is funded by Rotary Foundation, USA, and governed by Rotary Club of Calcutta Metropolitan, as host partner. We have microcredit as an independent project along with various other activities, e.g. literacy, health care, environment, sanitation & safe drinking water, infrastructure etc. We are working in four poverty stricken villages of Barasat & North 24 Parganas, in West Bengal, India and are on the threshold of launching microcredit in a sustainable way.

In this regard, I feel the need to equip myself with Grameen Bank Replication (GBRP) models and teaching methods, so as to comply with the duties I’m given for successful implementation of microcredit by taking active part in GBRP’s Training-Workshop/Dialogue program in Bangladesh. I’d be very much indebted to Grameen Bank if they allow me to take part in “Training/Workshop/Dialogue” program at a Grameen site for at least two weeks.

Abhijit Das
Project Coordinator, 3H
Rotary Club of Calcutta Metropolitan
Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
abhijit_das09@yahoo.co.in
December 5, 2004

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