SETTING UP POOR PEOPLE FOR LIFE 1
It has been said (paraphrasing an old saying): give a poor man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, set him up to fish and you’ve set him up for life.
This is exactly what ACCION has achieved and continues to achieve. This is why the b5media Business Channel is holding a 24-hour Great Blog Off (to kick off at 12:01 am, 20 June, at each blogger’s time zone) to promote ACCION and, with your help, generate donations.
From 1998 through 2007, ACCION has served 6.2 million small borrowers (average loan size in Latin America & the Caribbean: $954, Africa: $922, Asia: $85). Using the UN average household size for developing countries of 5 members, 6.2 million ACCION clients translate to more than 30,000,000 poor people (almost the population of Canada).
If you want your $$$$ to have the maximum & optimum effect on poor people, donations are accepted at www.accion.org/b5media.
Great Blog Off logo by Arieanna Schweber, ACCION logo from www.accion.org, image from Microsoft Clipart
