Microfinance as a Tool for Community Development

Presentation and reception featuring international development experts from the East-West Center’s Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program

Kalpana Sankar
Chief Executive Officer
Hand in Hand
Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India

Dr. Sankaris working to reduce poverty with a focus on education, employment, income generation, and women’s empowerment through programs which have already reached more than 350,000 Indian women in 200,000 small enterprises. Sankar also leads the Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Project,part of the World Bank lending program. She was previously a consultant on gender and microfinance to the UNDP and UNOPS and has conducted microfinance trainings for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation. Sankar is currently an adviser to the South African government’s microfinance program and holds a Ph.D. in women’s development.

Kathleen E. Stack
Vice President, Program Development
Freedom from Hunger, Davis, California

Ms. Stack develops programs and partnerships that strengthen and expand the delivery of Freedom from Hunger’s integrated financial, educational, and health protection services to the poor. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Financial Education Project, a program that aims to provide the poor with knowledge and skills to manage, protect, and build their assets. Stack has 30 years of experience in international development and has authored manuals and articles on Credit with Education, integration of microfinance with credit unions, and business and financial education. She holds an M.A. in International Administration from the School for International Training.

Time: 6:00 p.m.: Registration & Reception with Pupus
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.: Program

Cost: $12.00 co-sponsor members; $15.00 non-members

RSVP by Monday, Aug. 24, 2009

Parking: $5.00

Parking is available on UH Manoa Campus. Please pay at guard kiosk along East-West Rd. or Maile Way. After 4 p.m. vehicles may park in any zone of the UH Manoa upper campus (Zones 9 & 11 are the closest to Burns Hall).

To register on-line and pay by credit card via secure encrypted Website visit http://EastWestCenter.org/event/2193.

Event Sponsor
East-West Center, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, Friends of the East-West Center, and University of Hawaii Women's Studies Program, Manoa Campus

More Information
EWC information, 808-944-7111, http://www.EastWestCenter.org/event/2193, Changing Faces (PDF)

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