The program “Microfinance Sans Frontières”, a BNP Paribas initiative, has recently been embraced by BNP Paribas Fortis. [...]
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Franck Marion
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Within the framework of its social and environmental responsibility, BNP Paribas supports “Microfinance Sans Frontières” association, which provides technical assistance to Microfinance Institutions (MFI) through a network of volunteers (active or retired, from the bank or not). Since its inception, MFSF has carried out around 50 missions in 10 countries for 12 different MFIs. MFSF [...]
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Samuel Lefevre
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As an employee of BNP Paribas Fortis, I took a few months’ leave of absence to go to India. I was to assist the management of ESAF Microfinance and Investments (Private) Ltd. (EMFIL) in implementing their growth strategy and in establishing a social performance management system.
Based in Thrissur, in the state of Kerala, this microfinance [...]
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Noémie Rénier
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The land of superlatives. This is how our travel guide refers to it, and rightly so. The poorest country in South America is also home to the highest, coldest, hottest, windiest, driest and wettest regions on the planet. And that’s not all – far from it. We feel as though we regularly have to resort [...]
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Benjamin Sierra
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Argentina is not a country in which microfinance flourishes, particularly in comparison with its neighbours, Bolivia and Peru. [...]
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Benjamin Sierra
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After Chile, FTT tackles Argentina! A huge country, the eighth largest in the world by size, extending nearly 4,000 km from North to South, with an incredible variety of climates and landscapes: from the summits of the Andes in the West, to the cloud forests to the North-East, through the deserts of the Pampas in [...]
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Johan Benichou
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And here we are now in South America! What a radical change! We’re going to spend about four months here, our route taking us through Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and the Republic of Ecuador. We’ll be doing all this by bike, with one exception: Paraguay, which we will cross by bus, as the [...]
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Benjamin Sierra
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From the start, we’ve thought of New Zealand as a turning point in our world tour. From now on, each step will bring us closer and closer to home. It’s already been six months, or half of the scheduled duration of our trip, since we began our tour in Nepal.
We’re also leaving – for the [...]
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Loïc Linard
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Ms. Tan’s story is a striking example of the success of microfinance. In 2001 she borrowed 6,000 pesos (€ 100) from Proximity to develop a small business in crushed ice, which she sells to markets in the south of Manila.
Faced with growing demand for delivering ice to these markets, she and her husband took out loans [...]
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Loïc Linard
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IDE: to create income opportunities for poor rural households
Project Why: to create a model of education for for children in India
