Harnessing Student Potential In Microfinance

June 2010 Blog Posts (2)

Conference Review for Arcadia University and Siena College Newsletters

Below is the review that I wrote for the 2010 Africa Middle East Regional Microfinance Summit last April. It will be featured in newsletters from the study abroad departments at Arcadia University and Siena College.

While studying abroad through Arcadia University and Siena College in April, I attended the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. Microcredit, also known as “microfinance,” is a worldwide developmental…

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Added by Ben Thomas on June 16, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The First Step of my Microfinance Journey.

I am a Kenyan student, pursuing an undergrad Bachelor of Commerce double major in Microfinance and Business Administration at Strathmore University.

I have always had that passion to be an entrepreneur, to start and manage a successful business, to innovate new solutions, to bring that newness of a product into the market - to try the untried.

This is no easy task - but I saw an opportunity in taking up…

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Added by Eliud Njathi Mungai on June 7, 2010 at 6:56am — No Comments