Vision Trips

Hope International Vision Trips

HOPE Trips provide an opportunity to learn about Christ-centered microfinance through a firsthand experience of facing poverty, engaging clients, and seeing their businesses so that participants may return home significantly changed and committed to becoming involved in expanding HOPE’s mission.

Unitus Experiance Microfinance Trips

Unitus Microfinance Trips (formerly Partner Expeditions) are short trips to visit Unitus’s partners and learn about microfinance firsthand. Designed for high-impact donors and others considering a significant donation to our organization, Unitus Microfinance Trips provide an incredible opportunity to see the power of microfinance in person.

Social Impact Adventures microfinance trip to Nicaragua

Social Impact Adventure's passion is to host exhilarating and enticing adventures where you can delve into the social impact of microfinance in developing nations and have opportunities to meet with clients and professionals first hand.

Come with MFI Connect to Kenya this spring!

In coordination with Sam Daley-Harris, director of The Microcredit Summit Campaign, we are working to bring a delegation of passionate students to the 2010 Africa/Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit from April 5 - April 11, 2010.

The MFI Connect experience includes field visits, panel sessions, workshops, brushing shoulders with inspiring microfinance professionals, and the chance for MFI Connect members to meet and work together as students supporting microfinance. MFI Connect is also working with Sam Daley-Harris to create a special student session with Muhammad Yunus and Ingrid Monroe. The more students can come, the more likely we'll be able to hold this session!

For more information, see www.microcreditsummit.org.
Also, check out their YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/MicrocreditSummit.

Create Your Own Trip...

Is there a country you are planning on visiting but you don't know of any microfinance vision trips going there? Create your own! Microfinance Institutions (MFI's) have few opportunities to share what they are doing with the outside world and are often excited to show off their work to interested visitors.
You can find a list of MFI's in your country on Microfinance Gateway and contact them via e-mail or phone. Allow plenty of time to plan your visits since many MFI's have limited internet access and have staff members that travel frequently. And remember, your there to listen, learn and encourage. Please be respectful of their time and culture.