Monday, 05-07-2007

YPIN: Revolutionaries and Champions-Critical Ingredients for Ending Global Poverty

Sam Daley-Harris is president and founder of RESULTS Educational Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to mass educational strategies to generate the will to end world hunger. Mr. Daley-Harris will discuss changes to microcredits, technologies creating change in poverty alleviation, the next steps needed and what the future holds in development work. RESULTS Educational Fund organized the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington DC . The Summit was attended by more than 2,900 participants from 137 countries and launched a nine-year campaign to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005.

Mr. Daley-Harris is also founder and president of RESULTS, an international citizens’ lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty. Mr. Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about which President Jimmy Carter said, “[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future.” Mr. Daley-Harris is also editor of Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families.

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