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April 2010
Village Banking Campaign Call-To-Action a Big Success

We are proud to announce that FINCA has come close to – and surpassed – our three main goals for the Village Banking Campaign, despite the challenging economic times. FINCA launched the Village Banking Campaign in May 2007 in order to harness social momentum and mobilize the people and resources needed to alleviate poverty on a global scale. Read more about the remarkable achievements

March 2010
FINCA is a Leader in the Protection of Microfinance Clients

FINCA and other leading microfinance institutions (MFI) worldwide have drafted and endorsed a statement in support of the Smart Microfinance Campaign, a core set of Client Protection Principles to help MFIs practice good ethics and smart business. These pro-client codes of conduct and practices include: avoidance of over-indebtedness, transparent and responsible pricing, appropriate collections practices, ethical staff behavior, mechanisms for redress of grievances, and privacy of client data.

February 2010
FINCA Azerbaijan Surpasses 100,000 Client Mark
FINCA Reaches Record Number of Clients Worldwide

FINCA Azerbaijan recently became the third program in FINCA’s 21-country global network to pass the 100,000-client milestone—after FINCA Mexico and FINCA Kyrgyzstan. Founded in 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, FINCA Azerbaijan is helping transform the lives of over 500,000 children and adults struggling in poverty.

January 2010
Providing a Hand Up in Haiti since 1989

One year after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, FINCA’s small loans are providing hope and opportunity for nearly 8,000 clients, empowering them to build businesses, create jobs and improve living standards for their families, estimated at approximately 40,000 children and adults, while helping rebuild the Haitian economy. 

November 2010
FINCA Programs Honored by Key Rating Organizations

FINCA’s programs in Ecuador and Mexico were recently ranked in the Top 100 by Microfinance Americas for their outstanding outreach, transparency and efficiency. The publication of the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) ranked FINCA Ecuador #22 and FINCA Mexico #33.

July 2010
FINCA Nicaragua and FINCA Honduras clients benefiting from a USDA Food for Progress grant

USDA officials visited FINCA Nicaragua clients benefiting from a USDA Food for Progress grant, which has enabled the program to expand its outreach and lending to agricultural clients. The USDA also announced a new grant for FINCA Honduras, which will enable it to expand outreach to rural clients and offer specialized loans for farmers to buy equipment, undergo training, and improve their efficiency.

February, 2010
Finding Inspiration in the Courage of Haitians

FINCA Haiti’s country director wrote last week about visiting clients in the decimated town of Petit-Goâve: “These resilient people still march on…they inspire me. The sheer magnitude of this event has made us reconsider our role, and allowed us to expand our mission to help in any way we can, so we are distributing food on behalf of the World Food Program, and giving tents to our homeless staff.”

December 2009
FINCA's Holiday Newsbrief

What better gift can you give this season than the opportunity for a poor woman to work her way out of poverty? The best thing about this gift is that someone you care about will share in changing the life of a deserving poor woman and her family. Get into the true spirit of the season, and give a gift full of meaning this year.

November 2009
FINCA Opens Canadian Outreach Branch

More than 350 Canadians joined FINCA Canada Board members Linda Wolfond and Mike and Jacquie Green at the historic Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto to raise funds for FINCA Haiti.

For two decades, FINCA has provided small loans to women living in the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere, providing them with the resources to build businesses and generate jobs in their communities.

September 2009
FINCA Armenia Celebrates Ten Years of Changing Lives

Founded in 1999, FINCA Armenia is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, continuing to set high standards for both the region and the FINCA network.

August 2009
GE Capital Global Banking Continues Support for Village Banking Campaign

GE Capital Global Banking continues its $1.5 million, three-year commitment to FINCA’s Village Banking Campaign goal of reaching one million of the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs with small loans, insurance and savings products.

“FINCA Mexico: Stories of Hope,” a moving new documentary, features Golden Globe Award winner Natalie Portman—FINCA’s Ambassador of Hope—visiting clients of the FINCA program in Mexico to learn of their struggles, triumphs, and determination to craft a better future for their families.

The National Peace Corps Association has named FINCA’s founder and former Peace Corps volunteer John Hatch the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, presented to a volunteer who continues making sustained and distinguished contributions to humanitarian causes, or whose innovative, social entrepreneurial actions bring about significant, long-term change.