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Visiting Villiage Enterprise in Northern Uganda. Village Enterprise equips people living in extreme poverty in rural Africa to start sustainable businesses and savings groups. Unlike our traditional microfinance partners, WPF supports the asset transfer component of the program, know as the Graduation Model.

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visiting #WPF partner Thrive #Microfinance in #Zimbabwe. This group of ladies just completed the initial loan assessment and approved to receive their first loan with #Thrive (at Zimbabwe)

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Meet the #BRAC #Myanmar staff of #WPF supported Pyawbwe branch. (at Pyawbwe, Mandalay, Burma)

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Early morning stroll through the Mandalay Jade Market

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WPF heads to the Nepali far West reviewing potential new partnerships.

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Back on the road. Checking out village banking in northern Senegal with CAURIE Microfinance. (at Saint-Louis, Senegal)

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#Dibi for lunch - Senegalese Grilled Lamb With Onion-Mustard Sauce. (at Kaolack)

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Zoe and I visit Babban Gona in Northern Nigeria.  BG operates a fully integrated agricultural program to support smallholder farmers. This includes distribution of quality inputs like seed and fertilizer, providing technical training to increase yield, support with harvest, storage and financing and access to valuable market linkages. To date, WPF has authorized $500,000 to support the organization's aggressive expansion strategy in the north.

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In addition to making loan payments at their bimonthly group meetings, Entrepreneur du Monde clients also discuss a range of topics around business, health and family. (at Lomé, Togo)

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Visiting WPFs partner in Nigeria, Babban Gona, with @zoezyso. As the Africa Program manager Zoe's job is to evaluate existing projects, crack codes, look for new potential MFI partnerships and share the story of microfinance and entrepreneurship with our stakeholders. Never a dull moment! (at Kaduna State)

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Daniel Zoltani, WPF’s Global Programs Director, makes some new lemur friends in Andasibe, Madagascar.

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Zoe So, WPF’s Africa-Middle East Program Manager, visits Jiro-Ve in Madagascar.

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Bhutan

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WPF visits the ribbon cutting of a new #bancocomunal group. These ladies will receive their first loan with Fundacion Paraguya today! (at San Pedro De Ycuamandyyú)

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Ifonise, a client of Fonkoze in Haiti, buys, dries, rolls and sells tobacco as one of her income generating activities. 

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Voodoo relics in the Marche en Fer, the Iron Market, in Port-au-Prince Haiti.

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Up up up into Guatemalan highlands to visit WPFs parter SolCom providing community enterprise solutions to the last mile. (at Santa Maria Nebaj-Quiche)