Friday, November 6, 2009

First Post!!!!

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL FUND THE FUTURE BLOG!!!!

My name is Jahan Sharif and I created this blog to both raise money so I can participate in a university run program focusing on poverty elimination through microenterprise, taking place in June 2010, and to raise awareness about global poverty, and the measures being taken to reduce it. I invite you to look around the blog and explore the links I've included. Check back weekly to keep updated with my fundraising progress, and other news on the fight on poverty!!!

Program Website- Dominican Republic
http://neu.edu/sei/programs_courses/programs/field_study_program1/

Wikipedia Page on Microfinance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance

UN Millennium Goals- #1 End Poverty by 2015
We Can Make it Happen!!
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/poverty.shtml

Mohammad Yunus- the man who started it all
http://www.muhammadyunus.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

Grameen Bank- the bank Mohammad Yunus Started
http://www.grameen-info.org/

Kiva- Loans that Change Lives
http://www.kiva.org/

You can click on the links in the side bar, if you don't want to copy and paste these :)

Thanks again everyone!!!

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