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The Microcredit Summit Campaign and Gema-PKM hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008  in Bali, Indonesia from July 28 - 30, 2008, bringing together more than 1,000 delegates from over 40 countries.  APRMS offered delegates 6 plenary sessions, 24 workshops, 5 day-long courses, and various council meetings.  Summit attendees assessed progress toward the Campaign’s two poverty goals for 2015, and discussed obstacles and solutions to achieving these objectives. Click on the images on the right to access the GreenMicrofinance Blog (produced in partnership with USAID's Microenterprise Development office) and the Official Summit Participant Blog.

About GreenMicrofinance:

GreenMicrofinance™  combines the impact of microloans with the power of clean, renewable energy for those at the Bottom of the Pyramid, enabling MFI clients to prosper in the new carbon sensitive economy.  Once financed and installed, green energy technologies improve microclients' productivity and quality of life, protecting them from skyrocketing fossil fuel prices as well as eliminating the adverse health effects of kerosene fumes. GreenMicrofinancing is, additionally, an effective tool in combating climate change through lowered carbon emissions - working towards environmental justice for the world's most vulnerable citizens and the whole web of creation.  

About the Microcredit Summit Campaign:

The first Microcredit Summit, held February 2-4, 1997, gathered more than 2,900 people from 137 countries in Washington, DC. They launched a nine-year campaign to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005. That goal was very nearly reached and in November of 2006 the Campaign was re-launched to 2015 with two new goals: 1. Working to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the end of 2015; 2. Working to ensure that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), between 1990 and 2015. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of the RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.