6 million families, affecting some 333 million family
members, which is more than the combined populations of the United States and
Canada," he added.
Microcredit loans support such low-tech business activities as grain
husking , rickshaw taxis, sewing and tailoring services, and high-tech efforts
such as marketing cell phone time to people without electricity or land-lines. After her second loan she was able to send her four oldest to
school and buy eight plastic chairs so the children wouldn't have to sit in
the dirt .

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2. 33; cell: 617-515-5059; palchik@microcreditsummit.

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N. She had no
furniture except for her worktable and her children never had shoes or
attended school.

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CHF International to Revitalize Palestinian Parks System

CHF International has worked in over 100 countries worldwide
since its inception.

Global Study Finds Seven-Fold Increase in Growth of Microcredit to Impoverished Families

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The Microcredit Summit will announce final results of the Campaign at the
Global Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 12, 2006, and add
two new goals to reach by 2015: 1) Provide microcredit to 175 million of the
world's poorest families; and 2) Raise 100 million of the world's poorest
families above US$1 a day.

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The UN has designated 2005 as the International Year of
Microcredit.
"Millions of the world's poorest citizens are achieving economic gains
through microloans that fuel small businesses," said Microcredit Summit
Campaign Director Sam Daley-Harris." Two recent reports on Bangladesh, the world's most saturated
microcredit market, demonstrate microcredit's role in reducing poverty:

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As with all of CHF
International's projects around the world, the organization will ensure that
all community stakeholders -- particularly women , children, youth, the elderly
and those with special needs -- are active participants in the design and
implementation of the project.5 million loan recipients in 1997, based on
results of a new survey by the Microcredit Summit Campaign released at the
United Nations today.

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Before her microloan , her children were malnourished.
For information or a copy of the report, contact: Dalia Palchik:
202-637-9600, ext.

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Daley-Harris welcomed findings that women comprise nearly 84 percent of
the poorest loan recipients because, "Empowering women is critical to reducing
world poverty.

A 14-year World Bank study found three percent of Bangladeshi
microcredit clients left poverty annually because of microloans; one
percent of non-clients left poverty due to increased economic activity in
villages, and microfinance accounted for 40 percent of reductions in
moderate poverty in rural Bangladesh.com.

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nine years ago by delegates from 137 countries, the Microcredit Summit
Campaign seeks to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families
receive microloans by the end of 2005.microcreditsummit.

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, CHF International, a major
international development and humanitarian relief organization, has launched a
12-month program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
that will build and revitalize at least 16 parks throughout the Palestinian
territories of Gaza and the West Bank. UNDP's Human Development Report 2005 found Bangladesh had surpassed
India in reducing child mortality and attributed its progress to factors
including "expanded opportunities for employment and access to
microcredit.

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Hundreds of parliamentarians have urged the World Bank, UNDP, and regional
development banks to increase microcredit funding, commit half of microfinance
funds to the poorest, require cost-effective poverty measurement tools to
ensure compliance, and report results annually.
Daley-Harris said, "With increased support, the U.'s Millennium
Development Goals, which include halving poverty and were adopted by more than
180 heads of state and government in 2000, will become reality within a
decade.

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In addition to providing enhanced recreational access and an improved
quality of life for over 800,000 community members, the Palestinian American
Recreation and Conservation Services Project (PARCS) will provide residents
with immediate employment opportunities through construction and
revitalization projects. The
organization provides technical expertise and leadership in international
development, including critical emergency management following disasters and
civil conflict.org.

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CHF International has been active in the West Bank and Gaza for over 10
years, and is already implementing several successful programs focused on
access to credit for businesses and housing, vocational training, community
planned infrastructure construction and environmental enhancement. NEW YORK, More than 92 million families, the
majority earning less than US$1 a day, received microloans in 2004, nearly a
seven-fold increase from the 13. Some 29,000 children die daily from largely preventable
malnutrition and disease - the equivalent of a major tsunami every ten days -
and more than one billion people live on less than US$1 a day," he said.org.

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Survey data came from more than 3,100 institutions worldwide. "The little
ones run around now," she says.

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He added, "It's so important to
provide recreational facilities that will help to counter the detrimental
effects of living in conflict, while helping to restore the area's historical
beauty.
Despite this impressive record, less than one percent of World Bank funding
goes to microcredit, a situation Daley-Harris called "unconscionable.

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"The majority of these loans have gone to
the extremely poor - 66. "They go to sleep early because they are tired
from playing, not because they are weak.

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All facilities created or upgraded through the PARCS project will provide
residents in the West Bank and Gaza with recreational areas that will ensure
access for physically challenged community members, while protecting the
environment and creatively using local resources.
"We are proud to expand our existing housing, infrastructure and extensive
lending work in Gaza and the West Bank with a project that will have such a
palpable impact on residents' quality of life," said CHF International's Vice
President of External Relations , John Chromy.

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Microloans have helped tens of million of women like Ana Ruiz of
Nicaragua . Before receiving a US$100 microloan to expand her tortilla
business, Ana lived in a scrap wood shack with her eight children.
The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of RESULTS Educational Fund,
a Washington, DC-based non-governmental organization.

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In addition, architecture students from local universities will be
involved in the parks' design and construction, thereby offering them
practical training and exposure to participatory and professional design
approaches, while promoting a sense of civic responsibility and pride, by
participating in establishment of local parks .

Founded in 1952, CHF International is a non-profit development
organization that serves as a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in
low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping families
improve their economic circumstances, environment and infrastructure.