Social Entrepreneurship key to Middle East’s Youth

The Vice President of Ashoka Arab World, stresses the importance of investment in the region’s education, and the ongoing and empowerment of women — and why the private sector needs to play a strong role in championing these causes.

Supporting micro-finance through micro-credit

As the ongoing 14th Microcredit Summit comes to a close, yet another missing link in the provision of financial services to the poor has come to the fore. It has emerged that the provision of insurance services is one of the missing ingredients to financial independence among the poor.

Royalty amidst poverty

www.ntv.co.ke Away from the comfort of the venue of the Micro-credit Summit, it is not often that the high and mighty take time off to interact with the less privileged. But that is exactly what a visiting royalty Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain did soon after addressing the ongoing micro-finance conference. ntvs Alex Mwangi accompanied Her Majesty to the Mathare Valley slums where she got a first hand experience of how micro-finance is bringing hope to the poor.