NOVEMBER 2008

Congrats! And see you at convention

Dividends of Hope

Congratulations and a warm welcome go out to Barb Schumm, K-DAC Expedite, of Baden, ON, who not only will be attending MEDA's annual Business as a Calling convention for the first-time Nov. 6-9, but also won the draw for three nights free accommodation at The Columbus, a Renaissance Hotel! See you in Columbus.

Visit Egypt with Bob and Ed in 2009

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MEDA CLIMB-ing!

MEDA intern Dmitri Pasricha in Gulfport, Mississippi, recently obtained media exposure on a program to help aspiring entrepreneurs that follows the ASSETS model. Here's an excerpt from his blog Oct. 6:

Dmitri

The CLIMB program is in high demand. Creating Livelihoods in Micro Business is a ten-week course offered by International Relief and Development (IRD) in Gulfport, MS. The course helps people throughout Southern Mississippi who aspire to open their own small business. The focus is on writing a detailed business plan. Upon completion, graduates are eligible to participate in a peer-lending program to help get their business started.

After graduating the first class in August, the second class is well under way. One of the graduates from the first session has already secured two separate government contracts to provide janitorial services to large facilities.

In order to get the word out about the program we invited a local news station to the second class of the new session. The report was aired several times on local television and the response was amazing! We now have a waiting list of over 90 people who are interested in participating in the third session of the course, scheduled to start in January.

Read the transcript of the report

Check out the other MEDA intern blogs:
Audrey Quinn, Nicaragua
Lauren Lallemand, Nicaragua
Heather Harden, Nicaragua
Stephanie Dyck, Egypt
Liang Cheng, Peru
Stacey Chait, Peru

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