Five Talents

Five Talents

Five Talents is a Christian Microfinance charity. It provides loans to groups of entrepreneurs, and also offers business training and mentoring to clients. It has attracted notice and acclaim throughout the Anglican Communion and in secular news sources.

Organization

Five Talents has offices in London, Washington and Uganda, and partners with organisations in 8 countries around the world.

Five Talents was founded at the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Church leaders in 1998 [cite news
last =
first =
coauthors =
title =Five Talents microfinance initiative launches first annual review
work =
pages =
language =
publisher =Inspire Magazine
date =
url =http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=1113
accessdate = 2007-11-07 ] as 'a long term response to help the poor in developing countries based on need not creed'. [ [http://www.fivetalents.org.uk Taken from Five Talents UK Website] ]

The patron is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. [cite news
last =
first =
coauthors =
title =Archbishop of Canterbury becomes Patron of Five Talents International
work =
pages =
language =
publisher =Anglican Community Official Website
date =2003-10-02
url =http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2003/10/2/ACNS3602
accessdate = 2007-11-07 ]

Projects

Five Talents currently works in nine developing countries, which are: Peru, Uganda, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Dominican Republic, Sudan and Tanzania.

Group Lending Model

Five Talents operates using a group lending model. Loans are given to the group as a whole and so if one person has difficulty in repaying, the others in the group will have to cover their repayments. This system is similar to that originally developed by the Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus, and aims to reach those who are unable to take out commercial loans due to lack of collateral. Typically groups will consist of between 5 and 10 people. [cite news
last =
first =
coauthors =
title =What we do
work =
pages =
language =
publisher =Five Talents UK Website
date =
url =http://www.fivetalents.org.uk/whatwedo.php
accessdate = 2007-11-08 ] , and the majority of borrowers are women. [cite news
last =
first =
coauthors =
title =Women Only!
work =
pages =
language =
publisher =Five Talents UK Website
date =
url =http://www.fivetalents.org.uk/womenonly.php
accessdate = 2007-11-08 ]

Further reading

* Marshall, Katherine and Van Saanen, Marisa, "Development and Faith"," The World Bank, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8213-7173-2

ee also

*Parable of the Talents

References

External links

* [http://www.fivetalents.org.uk] Five Talents UK Website
* [http://www.fivetalents.org] Five Talents USA Website


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Five-tool player — In baseball, a five tool player is one who excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, baserunning skills and speed, throwing ability, and fielding abilities.In Major League Baseball, players considered five tool players have included Hall… …   Wikipedia

  • Five Stairsteps — The Five Stairsteps, known as The First Family of Soul , were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr. s six children: Alohe, Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth Keni , and briefly, Cubie. They are …   Wikipedia

  • Parable of the Talents — The Parable of the Talents (sometimes just the Parable of Talents) is a parable of Jesus in . It was told to illustrate an aspect of the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. Christians have taken it to mean that diligence in carrying out one s… …   Wikipedia

  • Hawaii Five-O — infobox Television show name = Hawaii Five O caption = The opening title sequence format = Crime drama runtime = approx. 0:60 (per episode) creator = Leonard Freeman executive producer = Leonard Freeman Philip Leacock Leonard Katzman starring =… …   Wikipedia

  • Tchaikovsky and the Five — As Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky studied with Nikolai Zaremba at the Western oriented St. Petersburg Conservatory, critic Vladimir Stasov and composer Mily Balakirev espoused a nationalistic, less Western oriented and more locally ideomatic school of… …   Wikipedia

  • Weekly Top Five — World Wrestling Entertainment Logo de World Wrestling Entertainment …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sir Charles Grandison, or, The happy man: a comedy in five acts — Sir Charles Grandison, ou l Homme heureux, comédie en cinq actes Pour les articles homonymes, voir The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Sir Charles Grandison, or, The happy man: a comedy in five acts est une pièce de théâtre écrite par Jane… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Matthew 25 — 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with… …   The King James version of the Bible

  • Stewardship (theology) — Stewardship is a theological belief that humans are responsible for the world, and should take care of it. It can have political implications, such as in Christian Democracy.Implications of StewardshipMany moderate and progressive evangelicals… …   Wikipedia

  • Aemilia Tertia — Aemilia Tertia, better known as Aemilia Paulla (c. 230 163 BC or 162 BC [Dixon, Suzanne. Polybius on Roman Women and Property, The American Journal of Philology , Vol. 106, No. 2 (Summer, 1985), pp. 147 170. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”