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Dear Friends of Togo member,
How fast
would you jump at the opportunity to assist five to ten
families in Togo break the cycle of poverty while you
earn interest on the money you have invested in helping
them?
You can make a dramatic difference by
simply investing in the National Peace Corps Association's
Microenterprise Program (MEP). With a minimum
investment of $1,000, you will provide a guarantee for
Micro-credit loans administered throughout Togo and over
35 other developing nations through one or more of MEP’s
designated institutions: Catholic Relief Services (CRS), FINCA (Foundation
for International Community Assistance) and Freedom
from Hunger (FFH).
Investment notes in the MEP are issued and managed by
the Calvert Social Investment Foundation , one of the
premier socially responsible investment organizations in
the U.S.
  Nearly one million families
throughout the developing world are served by FFH, CRS
and FINCA (FINCA and FFH are not currently in Togo). CRS
has seven programs reaching over 300,000 individuals in
Togo, including those participating in its micro-finance
program. Togo micro-finance is geared to especially help
women to set up small businesses. These loans, which are
usually issued as a three-month note, are quickly repaid
resulting in your investment being leveraged into
helping numerous families over the course of one
year.
Throughout the developing world,
microenterprise programs employ from 30 to 80 percent of
the working population. These small loans can and do
make the difference between being mired in absolute
poverty and having the chance to build a thriving little
business generating enough income for struggling parents
to feed their family, send their children to school and
to afford decent housing. Investing in the NPCA’s MEP is akin to the first goal
of Peace Corps: it allows you to provide resources that
will make a difference in the lives of many people.
If you need additional information about how you,
your family, friends and neighbors can invest in the
MEP, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from
you soon.
Sincerely,
Helene Ballmann Dudley
helenedudley@yahoo.com
Chair, NPCA Microenterprise
Program
Colombia 68-70 and Albania/Slovakia
97-99
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