org or 1-800-77-OXFAM.

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Sun believes the world is entering a new era -- a Participation Age --
where dramatically lowered barriers to entry, plummeting device prices, and
near-universal connectivity are driving a new round of network participation.

About Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international development organization dedicated to
finding long-term solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice around
the world. More information at http://www.org

About Unitus
Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator, acting as a social venture
capital investor for the microfinance industry.

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Inc., Unitus (http://www. Through
the partnership, Unitus will provide capacity-building consulting , $1.

Contact:
David Schappell
425-881-2793
dschappell@unitus.

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The campaign's global petition,
"The Big Noise," has been signed by almost 8 million people globally and calls
on governments, international institutions and multinational companies to
trade fairly .
Immediately, a reply will come from Oxfam, moving the dialogue to the fan's e-
mail inbox, and providing the opportunity to further engage with the campaign
online. This growth in the network economy is fueled
by sharing and collaboration among communities interconnected by technology
and driven by purpose. "Bandhan clearly fits this group -- their growth to date, loan
methodology, board of directors and operating systems are all world-class.

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Despite a long, successful history , MFIs still only reach an estimated 16
percent of the 500 million people who could use their services .

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Coldplay Concerts to Bring More Western Supporters to Global Effort
At shows during this summer and fall's "Twisted Logic" tour, Coldplay fans
will be shown a video of lead singer Chris Martin visiting poor farmers in
Ghana and talking about his support for the Make Trade Fair campaign . Only 14 percent of the poor people in West Bengal who could
use microfinance services to improve their lives currently have access.

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Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris , and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc .
"We are privileged to work each day to help the world's very best
microfinance institutions become even better," said Unitus President and CEO
Geoff Davis.

This category is for sites of grassroot organizations which discuss, promote, criticize, or write about international trade or otherwise work for or against it, and for related events and projects.

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addresses are captured and cataloged and Sun's technology is being leveraged
to initiate each fan's connection to the Make Trade Fair campaign.

Unitus Expands Across India With Bandhan Partnership

Unitus identifies the
highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and
helps accelerate their growth through capital investments and
capacity-building consulting, thus empowering them to help exponentially more
poor people worldwide.

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At Coldplay shows this summer and fall, concertgoers will be
invited to text in their support to Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign.newscom. Sun's resources were put to work at U2 concerts throughout
Europe and the U. and the historic Live 8 show in Philadelphia, and have
contributed to the mobilization of millions of individuals.

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Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at sun.com

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Oxfam America and Sun Microsystems Team to Bring Supporters to Fair Trade Movement

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Sun also recently announced a
agreements with the United Nations to provide technology, support and training
at the UN's series of Youth Leadership Summits, culminating in a global summit
to be held next August at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York City.1
million in catalytic debt, and a $100,000 grant for management information
systems and human resources, all targeted at helping Bandhan grow from 52,000
to 1 million poor clients by 2009. Beyond
microfinance , Bandhan provides services in micro entrepreneurship, health,
education, and disaster management to the disadvantaged community of the
society, specially women and children, to help break the vicious circle of
poverty.

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From blogs to Java(TM) technology, SMS messages to Web services, participants
are forming communities to drive change, create new businesses, new social
services, and new discoveries .

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New Partnership Builds on Previous "Share the Opportunity" Efforts for Sun
This Oxfam relationship is just the latest step in Sun's "Share the
Opportunity" initiative, a global effort to help promote participation in
social change.com), an
innovative nonprofit organization that helps alleviate poverty by accelerating
the growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide, today announced a
microfinance partnership with Bandhan in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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"
Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign was launched to raise awareness and
mobilize support to change international rules so trade can become part of the
solution to poverty, not part of the problem. Since the
beginning of the campaign in March 2005 , more than a quarter million
supporters have joined, via text message, the fight to eradicate extreme
poverty in Africa and throughout the world. Sun also believes that sharing and collaboration in
the Participation Age will stimulate innovation to help all participants from
across the world grow and prosper. In
fact, during the months we were discussing the partnership, they increased
their access to an additional 20,000 poor individuals!"
Bandhan operates in West Bengal, one of India 's poorest states, using an
individual lending methodology that differs from the group lending methodology
used in most of India.
Bandhan hopes to help fill that gap. Together we will be able to scale to new heights!" exclaimed Mr.

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Lyndsay Cruz
Oxfam America
(562) 331-0698
lcruz@oxfamamerica.

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The
video encourages concertgoers to sign onto Oxfam 's Big Noise petition by
texting their e-mail address to "TRADE" (87233 on their cell phones).

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Carolyn Rohrer
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Microfinance Partnership Will Empower 1 Million of India's Poor by 2009

REDMOND, Wash.

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Concertgoers at Coldplay Shows Can Sign Petition through Sun-Powered Text
Messaging Solution With Goal to Reach 10 Million Supporters by World Trade
Organization Meeting in December

SANTA CLARA, Calif. "Our agreement with Sun
Microsystems helps us get the word out to a young tech-savvy audience, and
will help us bring in even more supporters to this effort. Make Trade Fair 's goal is to add more than 2 million supporters
to the ranks of the fair trade movement through this campaign and deliver the
Big Noise to world trade ministers this December at the World Trade
Organization Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong.
Ghosh, Bandhan's founder and Executive Director. The
microfinance field's challenge is to scale this high-potential industry to
fill the enormous supply shortfall . Based in Redmond,
Washington, USA, and with offices in Bangalore, India, Unitus is a nonprofit
organization that relies on innovative financial instruments, and the
financial resources of like-minded individuals and foundations, to fulfill its
mission.

About Bandhan
Bandhan -- meaning "togetherness " -- offers a variety of microfinance
services including microcredit loans, savings, and loan repayment insurance to
poor women in both rural and urban areas in India's West Bengal state.

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About Sun Microsystems
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- guides Sun in
the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets.

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in
the United States and other countries. This methodology helps them serve their clients in a
highly personalized, efficient manner. Bandhan also serves very poor rural
borrowers while achieving branch profitability, another industry-leading
accomplishment.

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(Nasdaq: SUNW) and Oxfam America today announced an agreement to enlist
more supporters to the fair trade movement through a text message petition
solution.
(Photo: http://www.newscom. The
summit's mission is to train the next generation of youth leaders to tackle
the biggest problems of our age: extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, environmental
devastation and gender inequality. During 2004, existing Unitus MFI partners doubled
the total number of clients served, growth rarely seen in the microfinance
industry. As of June 2005, Unitus has seven MFI partners
worldwide serving more than 399,000 poor clients.

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(415) 294-5084
carolyn. Bandhan joins Unitus alongside MFI partners ASA-GV, BSS, Grameen
Koota, and SKS in India, Pro Mujer in Mexico , and Jamii Bora Trust in Kenya. In doing so, Unitus aims to demonstrate that MFIs can
be run as profitable , large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to
local capital markets.

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The
campaign advocates for reform of agricultural and trade policies so that
farmers in developing countries can get a fair price for their goods and
benefit from international markets.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050818/SFTH059-b )
"Americans are mobilizing to demand trade justice," said Brian Rawson,
national outreach organizer for Oxfam America.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age.com.
"With Unitus's assistance , we are excited to pursue our aggressive growth
targets. Unitus was created to help transform this
opportunity into reality.