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In the contemporary debate on microcredit, the voices of those whose lives it affects on a daily basis are conspicuously absent. The goal of our project is to change that—to bring recipients’ experiences and opinions into the global debates on microcredit.

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Global Associate in the Philippines, Dr. Susana Anayatin recently sent updates on the implementation of ten restored or newly installed Jetmatic Water Pumps in the South Upi District, made possbile by our partnership with Susana and her team in Manguindanao.  In July, Susana expressed the challenges and obstacles to hitting their target goals and bringing… Continue reading Philippines Update: Summer 2016

  Microcredit advisor Kasia Paprocki published this new research article at Geoforum to advance the notion of “social dispossession”, specifically by focusing on her own prior field research in rural Bangladesh. Social dispossession is the author’s original and new framework to interrogate the systemic abuses of microcredit borrowers. As more fully defined from the article’s… Continue reading “Social Dispossession” in Microcredit

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August 27th Update: I am pleased to announce that YOLRED, the first platform for Child soldier reintegration and rehabilitation in Africa that is owned and run by the former combatants themselves, is officially launched and up and running. Our work with the YOLRED team in Uganda ended with a public gathering to celebrate the official… Continue reading Follow Along as Former Child Soldiers Launch Reintegration Organization

As the conflict in Colombia reaches near finality with the ratification of the Peace Treaty and weapons being laid-down by both sides, it is worth examining the devasation created by the half-century civil conflict. Here are eight of the major consequences to the war-torn country:  There are 7.6 million war victims registered on the government’s… Continue reading Eight Humanitarian Consequences of Colombia’s War

Groundwork Established by Partners at Arigatou and the GNRC to further Youth Peace Initiatives  To see the full Report and view more photos, click on the pdf document here.  Here in the Horn of Africa and beyond, the second Quarter of 2016 was eventful with peacebuilding and related activities being implemented in the region. The… Continue reading Quarterly Report Highlights Peace Building Expansion

As part of the Rwanda Peace Education Programme’s “Peace Week,” I had the opportunity of meeting with and hearing the testimony of Josephine Dusaminama who was a rescuer during the Genocide. It is the summer of 1994 in Kibuye Town, a small city on the eastern shore of Lake Kivu. Fishing boats parade Lake Kivu… Continue reading Rwandan Stories of Resistance: Josephine Dusaminama

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