Mobilizing Rotary for Microcredit

MRMDee Doe

La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club

Pauline Lim-EndresenSD Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club

Microcredit and

Rotary International History of District 5340’s Microcredit efforts

First 8-Club collaboration in District 5340 Microcredit in India 2003

3 Rotarians from, 2 from San Diego Club 33 and 1 from La Jolla Sunrise founded MRM for District 5340

Microcredit and Rotary International

RAGM approved in 2007 Help Rotary Clubs launch microcredit projects,

capitalizing on Rotary’s unique strengths

MRM & District 5340 Rotary ClubsCan we get 100% participation?

Brawley El Camino Real La Mesa Rancho Bernardo Sunrise

Calexico Encinitas La Mesa Sunrise Rancho Santa Fe

Camp Pendleton Encinitas Coastal Lemon Grove San Diego (Club 33)

Carlsbad Escondido Mission BaySan Diego Downtown Breakfast

Carlsbad Hi-Noon Escondido East Mission ValleySan Diego Uptown Sunrise/Mid City

Chula Vista Escondido Sunrise National City San Luis Rey/Oceanside

Chula Vista Sunrise/Bonita Fallbrook Oceanside San Marcos

Coronado La Jolla Old Mission Shelter Island

Del MarLa Jolla Golden Triangle

Point LomaPoway Southeast San Diego

Del Mar-Solana Beach Sunrise

La Jolla New Generations Ramona Torrey Pines La Jolla

El Cajon Noon La Jolla Sunrise Rancho Bernardo  

MRM – Historical ResultsRotary Year

Country, $$$ raised in our District

Rotary Club(primary sponsor)

2003/04 India $20,000 La Jolla Sunrise

2004/05 S. Africa $25,000Zambia $15,000Ecuador $18,000Afghanistan $37,000

La JollaLa Jolla SunriseLa Mesa SunriseEncinitas Coastal

2005/06 Ecuador $20,000India $25,000Niger $24,000

La Mesa SunriseLa Jolla SunriseLa Jolla Sunrise

2006/07 Uganda $25,000India $13,000Sri Lanka $25,000

San MarcosDelMar/SolanaB SunriseDel Mar

MRM – Historical Results

Rotary Year

Country, $$$ raised in our District

Rotary Club (primary sponsor)

2007/08 Liberia $24,000Zambia $24,000Ecuador $18,000Kenya $24,000Ghana $600,000

La Jolla SunriseLa Jolla SunriseLa Mesa SunriseSan Diego (33)MRM

2008/09 Nepal $25,000Mexico $69,000Ecuador $18,000

EncinitasSan Diego (33)La Mesa Sunrise

2009/10 Liberia $200,000 La Jolla, MRM

2010/11 Honduras $2k, India $10k, Zambia $10k, Cambodia, Honduras

La Mesa, Club 33, La Jolla Sunrise, Encinitas, Poway

International Collaborations2006/2007 Ghana Total $600,000

Funds: San Diego District 5340 MRM ($50,000), Rotary District in Calgary, San Diego-based Foundation,Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

NGO: Opportunity International

2009/2010 Liberia Total $200,000

Funds: San Diego District 5340 MRM, Rotary District in Calgary, Rotary District in Alaska Feed the Hungry Foundation

NGO: Foundation for Women in Liberia

International Collaborations

2009/2011 India Total $29,600

RI TRF #: 71746

Funds: San Diego District 5340 MRM, Rotary District 2080 in Italy, Rotary District 3170 in India

NGO: BAIF Institute for Rural Development

MRM results

Total funds raised since 2003:

over $1.2 million

Microcredit in San DiegoFoundation for Women

Irma Knighton, 2nd loan cycleLow fat tamales production and sales

Luz Arreola, 1st loan cycleJewelry sales and Cisco business training facilitator

Microcredit in San DiegoFoundation for Women

Angelica de la Torre, 8th loan cycleJewelry sales

Sandra Romero & daughter, 2nd loan cycleSwiss Just natural wellness products

Microcredit in San DiegoFoundation for Women

City Heights Somali GroupFardowsa and friends, 2nd Loan cycleProduction and sales of samosas and Somali food

Microcredit in San Diego

Guest speaker, Karla Duarte, teaching the Spring Valley Microcredit group marketing and business management class

Microcredit & District 5340 First project in India

Microcredit & District 5340 First project in India

Rotary in LiberiaFoundation for Women

Microcredit in LiberiaMicroloan Borrowers

Microcredit in LiberiaMicroloan Beneficiaries

Microcredit in ZambiaPower of Love Foundation

Microcredit in ZambiaMicroloan Borrowers

Microcredit in Zambia Microloan Beneficiaries

Microcredit in Mexico Financiera de Esperanza

Chilapa, Guerrero, Mexico Host Rotary Club in Chilpancingo June 2010: Total five loan officers. 2095 borrowers

at end of April. Farm animals: raising chickens to sells eggs in the area;

raising goats to sell milk; raising pigs for meat to sell; Community sewing projects. seamstress; buying;

a collaboration of four women to make elaborate dresses to sell to wealth women in Chilapa

Handicrafts, shoes, candles, tortillas, flowers

Microcredit in Mexico Microloan Borrowers

Microcredit in Mexico Microloan Borrowers

Alam & Xochitl with Indigenous Center Meeting

Microcredit in Mexico Leaders’ Training Session

Microcredit in AfghanistanMatching Grant in 2004/05

Encinitas Coastal/La Costa Rotary Club$37,870 RI MG #55095Microcredit revolving loans in Jalalabad, Afghanistan:

Update in 2007:Our grant was the catalyst needed to get our partner, Relief International, to actually become a chartered micro-finance lender in Nangarhar Province. Once they were chartered, they were awarded a $500,000 capital grant by USAID to increase lending activity.

2010/2011 Microcredit projects

Honduras (La Mesa Sunrise) $2k Zambia (Chula Vista/Club 33) $10k Cambodia (Encinitas) Honduras (Poway)

Opportunity International

Videos from Opportunity International 1) microcredit and microfinance in

operation (click) 2) images from around the world.

How our support of microfinance is needed (click2)

Thank you & QuestionsMRM Rotary Clubs

Please join us, we need YOUBrawley El Camino Real La Mesa Rancho Bernardo Sunrise

Calexico Encinitas La Mesa Sunrise Rancho Santa Fe

Camp Pendleton Encinitas Coastal Lemon Grove San Diego (Club 33)

Carlsbad Escondido Mission BaySan Diego Downtown Breakfast

Carlsbad Hi-Noon Escondido East Mission ValleySan Diego Uptown Sunrise/Mid City

Chula Vista Escondido Sunrise National City San Luis Rey/Oceanside

Chula Vista Sunrise/Bonita Fallbrook Oceanside San Marcos

Coronado La Jolla Old Mission Shelter Island

Del MarLa Jolla Golden Triangle

Point LomaPoway Southeast San Diego

Del Mar-Solana Beach Sunrise

La Jolla New Generations Ramona Torrey Pines La Jolla

El Cajon Noon La Jolla Sunrise Rancho Bernardo