Microfinance for Social Justice: How Can Microfinance Lead the Way?
Social justice will be examined through a microfinance lens at the 6th annual Summit on Saturday, October 4 at the AllStream Centre from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Can microfinance bring social justice? You decide. Keynote addresses will be delivered by by global trailblazers: Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC; Rupert Scofield, Co-founder, President and CEO of FINCA International; and Marilyn Fitzgerald, PhD, author of If I Had a Water Buffalo: Empowering Others Through Sustainable Lending.
Expert panels will drill down deep into issues and topics, including:
- Financial Inclusion and Social Justice: Microfinance as a Means to Human Development
- Using Your Investment Dollars to Support Microfinance and Poverty Reduction
- Urban Projects: Scarborough & Detroit
- Mining, Financial Literacy and Gender Justice
- BRAC’s Holistic Development Model Explained
- Sustainable Development: Microfinance and Indigenous Peoples
The MasterCard Foundation is providing financial assistance for 100 students who register online in advance to attend the 2014 Toronto International Microfinance Summit. Click here for more information.
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