July 28-August 6th, 2006 GUATEMALA - Providing Microcredit Borrowers with Internet Training

Adults and Youth traveled to Guatemala and taught local microentrepreneurs how to use the internet to expand market access, and develop product catalog for local and export sales. Due to their success, YMCI is now installing internet computers in some MFI offices in Guatemala, and will continue to introduce borrowers to Internet and e-mail.

March 17-21, 2006 GUATEMALA

Twenty youths and twenty adults traveled to Guatemala, March 17 – 21, 2006 and partnered with youth and adults from the YPO Guatemalan chapter to visit micro credit sites and photograph the experience. In Jaibalito Village on Lake Atitlán we saw sixteen women receive credit for the first time.

 In the process of putting the Guatemalan trip together we discovered HELPS and the Onil stove. These stoves burn significantly more efficiently, with less fuel, less smoke in the homes, and a cleaner environment. HELPS is setting up a relationship with Genesis Empresarial, a local MFI, so that people could borrow money and pay the loan back rather quickly with the savings on the wood.)