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Hi all!

While I was in Mali, I met an amazing woman who directs the Trickle Up
Mali program in Severe, Mali, West Africa. Her program is an
amazingly successful microfinance program that focuses on lifting the
poorest of the poor, mainly women, out of the cycle of poverty. The
way Trickle Up accomplishes this is by providing small business loans
to qualified candidates and augmenting the loans with trainings in
business skills, health, and education. These loans help women who
live on an averaghe of $0.52 PER DAY to conquer their poverty for
good, and the statistics show that women tend to share both their
profits and their skills with their communities, which enables the
program to help people help themselves and the community.

An article about Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Microfinance:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_52/b3965024.htm

Looks like we don't have enough Luchistas to play. But please, come to the party anyway!

This is a combined birthday party for me and two friends (Allegra Thompson and Char Barker, for anyone who knows them). It’s a BBQ starting at 5:00 in the afternoon, in Berkeley.