MENA Microfinance for Women

MENA Microfinance initiative mainly for women but also open to men

All Blog Posts Tagged 'Microfinance' (5)

New initiative through handicraft

As some of the members are aware either via direct discussions or by consultation of the posts on this network's blog, it was an arduous task to get things started and we are still struggling to put this in the proper form.

After initial promises of funding from various patrons -  which never materialised unfortunately - and difficulties in creating a proper charity license, we are now in the process of setting up a funding system for this venture in order to be able…

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Added by Geetha Balvannanathan on October 23, 2014 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Membership approval

Dear all,

When joining this page for the first time and asking for approval of your membership, you get an email from me asking you why you have joined, what are your qualities, your added values and what it is you wish to achieve.

If I receive no response to my email, I sometimes ask again (except when the email id is clearly a bogus email) and after a second absence of response I simply delete the request. This is not an elitist approach but simply to filter out unwanted…

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Added by Geetha Balvannanathan on July 17, 2013 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Trademark registration finalised for Mena MicroFinance

Finally my trademark MENA MICROFINANCE has been published in two local arabic newspapers and has been entered into the ministry's website. Now the trademark will also be published in the official gazette cd of the Ministry of Economy.
The entity could only be created as a trading company as the two possibilities of being a…
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Added by Geetha Balvannanathan on December 7, 2010 at 3:47pm — No Comments

June 10 MENA MicroFinance presentation

Thanks to a female banker friend, Meena Bakshi, who gathered a crowd of her friends, very positive-minded and socially-driven women (not to forget Meena's husband Yogesh, a well-wisher of the initiative), the first official presentation on MENA MicroFinance for Women was a success.

Alongside the original model, new ideas on the social project of the "take to business" Microfinance model were shared and further organisation channels were…

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Added by Geetha Balvannanathan on June 11, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Trying to set up in Dubai's International Humanitarian City

Hi all,

I have tried a couple of weeks ago to get some more detailed information on the possibility for MENA Microfinance to set up in the International Humanitarian City but it seems to be a very difficult exercise.

To date I have not received any response.

If any of you has tried successfully to set-up an entity in the IHC including for fundraising, please let me know how you have achieved that.

It is vital for MENA MicroFinance to be able to…

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Added by Geetha Balvannanathan on May 23, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

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