Water.org workshop in Chennai to focus on innovative water credits

Microfinance Focus, March 8, 2010: Water.org, a nonprofit organization active in Africa, South Asia, and Central America providing access to safe water and sanitation, is organizing a National level forum on WaterCredit in Chennai on March 26, 2010.

The Forum aims at sharing the successes, ideas and lessons of WaterCredit with microfinance, in order to promote additional financial innovation in the watsan space, connect current and future partner organizations, and widen its beneficiary base.

The Forum is expected to have attendance from banks, MFIs and WSH NGO WaterCredit partners, potential MFI partners, development banks, microfinance service providers and private venture capitalists.

Co-founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, Water.org works with local partners to deliver innovative solutions for long-term success in providing safe water and sanitation to the poor and low-income people.

WaterCredit currently operates in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Uganda, and has partnerships with non-profit MFIs, for-profit MFIs, and non-profit watsan NGOs. In India, Water.org has been working with MFIs/NGOs on WaterCredit since 2004.

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