Yesterday evening we met at the home of our friends, Mary and Simon, for another installment of Dinner Dollars to Make a Difference. In preparation for the dinner, several of us read this book, The Poor Will be Glad, about how microfinance institutions (MFI) and savings and credit associations (SCA) can be practical and very effective ways to alleviate so much of the global poverty we are facing. One of the co-authors of the book is a friend of Mary and Simon's, so they chose an organization he's a part of, Hope International, as the recipient of the evening's dinner dollars. Thanks so much to Mary and Simon for sharing with their friends and neighbors a concept as important as microfinance. I know that reading the book was an eye-opener for me as well as a good education in what's possible, and I think others that attended the dinner also felt inspired to want to learn more.
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