NOVEMBER 2007

Offerings to MEDA

MEDA was recognized recently with an offering of $241.70 by an Ohio congregation. The group was responding to a challenge by the peace advocate of the Mennonite Church USA to cut hunger in half by the year 2015 through a gift of seven cents a day from every man, woman and child in America.

The letter enclosed with the donation noted that for the past two months the congregation has given a 50 cent offering to end hunger around the world. “We know that you (MEDA) do this by: providing food during emergencies and famines; training people for jobs and giving them small loans; teaching people about balanced diets, and making farming more productive.”

Many thanks from MEDA – Even a few cents a day can bring dividends of hope!

Credit union partnership promises dividends of hope

MEDA Trust’s new partnership with the Mennonite Savings Credit Union (MSCU) promises dividends of hope for poor people around the world. Through a new “landing page” for MSCU members on the MEDA Trust web site, they can become more engaged in philanthropy and microfinance, and live their values.

“We hope this will encourage MSCU members to become more involved in the lives of the working poor by giving them a hand up, not a hand out, through the gift of a loan to a micro-entrepreneur,” said Ed Epp, MEDA’s vice president of resource development. “They can experience microfinance and the difference it makes in people’s lives.”

The site and its promotion through the credit union will bring critical exposure of MEDA Trust to MSCU’s 16,000 members at its seven branches and five sub-locations across Southwestern Ontario.

The new initiative builds on a long-standing investment by the credit union in MEDA through MicroVest. Since 2000, MSCU has been a significant investor in the Sarona Global Investment Fund. Now MSCU members can invest on an individual level through MEDA Trust.

 


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