Update! Walk For Economic Empowerment

Baltimore | Boston 26 September 2009

  

The 2009 Walk For Economic Empowerment is nearly here! This Saturday people in Baltimore and Boston will be walking to support World Relief’s Savings For Life programs in Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Malawi.

So far, you have helped us raise over $28,000. We’ve also received gifts from Cambodia, Rwanda, Malawi, Liberia and Tanzania. Our target is to raise $35,000, and it isn’t too late to sign-up and walk, our to sponsor your favorite walker.

Every $25 raised enables World Relief to train someone in financial literacy, helping them learn how to save and effectively manage their money. Working in groups, they are able to lend to one another when they need access to extra capital, either to meet lifecycle events, such as during an illness or in preparation for a wedding, or they can borrow to build an expand a business. By lending funds to one another they receive interest payments that grow their assets even further.

Help us empower more people, sign-up to walk www.w4ee.org or sponsor your favorite walker www.wr.org/wee.