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Friendship Bridge is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lakewood, Colorado, distributing microcredit to women and children in rural Guatemala since 2000. From 1994 to 2000, the organization distributed loans in Vietnam.
Background
Founded in 1989, Friendship Bridge was the vision of Dr. Theodore C. Ning, a urologic surgeon and clinical professor of urology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and his wife Connie Ning, a psychotherapist.
Operations
In Guatemala, Friendship Bridge has seven branch agencies providing microfinance to different provincial areas.
Programs
As of 2007, Friendship Bridge had provided nearly $8 million in loans to women, and more than 21,000 scholarships to their children, in Vietnam and Guatemala.
See also
References
- ^ Dossey, Larry (2007). "The Peasant and the Professor: On Trust, Microcredit, and World Poverty". Explore. 3 (5): 433–444. doi:10.1016/j.explore.2007.07.001. PMID 17905351 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- Colom, Marcela; Austad, Kirsten; Sacuj, Neftali; Larson, Karen; Rohloff, Peter (2018). "Expanding access to primary healthcare for women through a microfinance institution: A case study from rural Guatemala". Healthcare. 6 (4): 223–230. doi:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2017.12.003. PMID 29428192. S2CID 3370312 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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