Friendship Bridge (non-profit)

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Friendship Bridge is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lakewood, Colorado, distributing microcredit to women and children in rural Guatemala since 2000. [1] From 1994 to 2000, the organization distributed loans in Vietnam. [1]

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Background

Founded in 1989, Friendship Bridge was the vision of Dr. Theodore C. Ning, a urologic surgeon and clinical professor of urology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and his wife Connie Ning, a psychotherapist. [1]

Operations

In Guatemala, Friendship Bridge has seven branch agencies providing microfinance to different provincial areas. [2]

Programs

As of 2007, Friendship Bridge had provided nearly $8 million in loans to women, and more than 21,000 scholarships to their children, in Vietnam and Guatemala. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dossey, Larry (2007). "The Peasant and the Professor: On Trust, Microcredit, and World Poverty" . Explore. 3 (5): 433–444. doi:10.1016/j.explore.2007.07.001. PMID   17905351 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  2. ↑ Colom, Marcela; Austad, Kirsten; Sacuj, Neftali; Larson, Karen; Rohloff, Peter (2018). "Expanding access to primary healthcare for women through a microfinance institution: A case study from rural Guatemala" . Healthcare. 6 (4): 223–230. doi:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2017.12.003. PMID   29428192. S2CID   3370312 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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