Clean Water in Guatemala Andy Amstutz, Coordinator and Assistant Teacher, Living Waters Project
In a Central American community where providing clean and plentiful water was a chronic problem, the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church joined a Guatemala nonprofit, Amigos del Lago de Atitlan, to build water filter systems and train local teams. Read more »
Microfinance: Promise or Peril? Sanjay Sinha, Deputy CFO, MicroCredit Enterprise; Relationship Manager, California Bank & Trust
Since their inception about 30 years ago, microfinance programs have helped lift millions of people out of abject poverty around the world. Such programs have proliferated in recent years, leading some analysts to ring alarm bells and make comparisons to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Read more »
