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€15.5 million disbursed as Josephine receives her €486 loan

Posted in Investing on MYC4, tagged , , , , , on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Total disbursement on the MYC4 platform made it past the 15.5 million euro mark today as 50-year-old Josephine from Kenya received a loan of 486 euro. The funds will be used to buy a dairy cow. Josephine started dairy keeping back 22 years ago when her husband bought her the cows to make her be self [...]

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2011 – Challenges and Opportunities

Posted in News, tagged , , , , on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

      2011 will be a year of challenges and opportunities for MYC4. The three main challenges faced by MYC4 are funding, profitability and risk. In spite of these challenges we also see opportunities for growth, improvement, innovation and impact in 2011. Funding for the rest of 2011, with the current staffing and at [...]

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If I could only get 10 minutes with Amy Klement…

Posted in If I could only get 10 minutes with..., Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Let me start out by quoting Amy Klement, Vice President at Omidyar Network (ON) elaborating on their blended use of ‘grants’ and ‘impact investments’. “We think that both are absolutely needed. Grant-based philanthropy has had tremendous positive impact by overcoming market-based failures that aren’t addressed by government. Grants can also help spur the creation of [...]

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Lions on the Move….

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting reading! I have had the ‘Lions on the move McKinsey report’ on my to-read-list for some time now and when I finally opened the 72 pages dense report from June 2010, I simply could not let it go… I must say that McKinsey truly has added Africa onto their ‘radar of opportunities’!! Below I [...]

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