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Successful businesses and well-off individuals
could do more to help end extreme
poverty around the globe by doing something as simple as
funding micro-finance programs for very impoverished entrepreneurs.
Very poor entrepreneurs in Africa and around the world, are operating with tiny capitals and struggling to
make a living for their families. Corporate leaders do
not have to go
to Africa, Asia, South America in search of these
needy entrepreneurs. Organizations like ICAfrica would
do that for you. All you have to do is Partner with a
good social enterprise NGO to help you extend your
support through charitable giving. As good corporate
citizens, leaders of developed western country firms must
embrace the idea that a better world is one in which
most
people, especially the grassroots, are given a fair chance to succeed. The more
success we have around the world, the more business we
could do with each other, the more peace we have and the
better we all are.
ICAfrica
is currently operating in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and
Uganda - offering micro loans and business
coaching to impoverished entrepreneurs. It would be nice
if firms in Canada, USA, UK, France, Germany and other developed
nations, partner with us or with some other
NGO and sponsor some micro enterprise development
programs (not "feed the people" type of program).
As
an example, in one of our project communities in Kimende
Kenya, we presently have over 1500 very impoverished
enterprising families with small children, who are waiting for
micro-loans
and business coaching. They really need this to grow their tiny
ventures and begin to earn better incomes immediately.
Typically a micro loan of between $50 and $200 enables
each impoverished family in this region to quickly get
out of poverty through enterprise or farming and begin
to properly take care of their children’s needs in
food, housing, health and education. Please support ICAfrica to
help these people. They are not asking for hand-outs but
for small loans to help them to become more productive
and contribute to the development of their local
economies.
At
ICAfrica, we believe it's a good thing for
socially responsible companies to get involved!
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For
information on getting involved, please call or email:
Eugene Nzeribe, Executive Director
ICAfrica
207 Bank Street, suite 462
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 2N2
email:
eugene_nzeribe@icafrica.com
Tel: 613-371-9800
www.icafrica.com
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