Address

1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036

Website

www.microcreditsummit.org/

Description

The first Microcredit Summit, held February 2-4, 1997, gathered more than 2,900 people from 137 countries in Washington, D.C. 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. By 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.

Category

Community, Volunteerism & Philanthropy, Environment, Hunger & Poverty, Women