May 2010 Blog Posts (3)

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…

I would like to welcome all members to this forum. This website is intended to build a strong community that shares the common belief of fostering social change in the smoothest way possible.

MENA Microfinance is not a business that intends to make money and pay large wages of employees. It is intended to function as a self-sufficient social project with the help of social change luminaries who contribute their time as volunteers and philanthropists who contribute their funds…

It all started out with the thought that I needed to do more than what I was doing within my bank in helping family businesses. In most of my meetings I would be faced with the screamingly silent issue of women's role in MENA family businesses.

I realised that the issue of women in business was still something that did not receive much support locally although there were some amazing and highly educated women out there. Many arab and non-arab women living in the MENA region…