Microfinance In The West Bank

From JewSchool: http://jewschool.com/2009/02/01/15027/lend-for-peace/ Lend for Peace by zt · Sunday, February 1st, 2009 I have been hearing about a cool new organization of Jews and Palestinians doing micro-credit work in the the West Bank. They are ready to launch. Here’s the info: A group of students at Penn, including an Orthodox Jew and a Palestininan American, have started LendForPeace (a wordplay on Land for Peace) a Kiva-type Microfinance loan direct fund aimed at fostering Middle East Peace. It’s a very idealistic mission - that by lending to West Bank women micro-entrepreneurs, hope for the future will trump ideology and despair. They are launching the fund at a talk and event at Penn this Thursday night and the community is invited. LendforPeace.org is proud to announce that it will launch to the world on February 5th, 2009! Come be a part of the excitement by joining us at our launch event. As all four of LendforPeace.org’s founders have current or previous ties with the University of Pennsylvania, we thought there was no better place to launch the site than on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia. Here are the details: LendforPeace.org Philadelphia Launch Event 7:00 PM, Thursday February 5, 2009 Jon M. Huntsman Hall F95 University of Pennsylvania 3730 Walnut Street