Boston — Uplift Academy

Friday, 25 November 2005, 13:09 | Category : Community, Mapping and Visualization, Technology
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I was there. I witnessed it. I will attest. What happened? Well, many wonderful and good-hearted people joined together in strings of conversation about uplift. What is uplift? Let’s jump on the elevator headed for good.
Jeffe Ashe and his co-worker Vinod from Oxfam explained savings-led microfinance. Fascinating stuff. To me it:

encourages self-sufficiency
rejects foreign aid dependencies
leverages [...]