Spanish National Host Committee Launched for Global Microcredit Summit

Microfinance Focus, April 20, 2010: Microcredit Summit Campaign announces the launch of the National Host Committee for the Global Microcredit Summit to be held in the month of November 14-17, 2011 in Valladolid, Spain.  The Queen of Spain, Secretary of State for International Development Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, Muhammad Yunus and many other distinguished leaders participated in the launch. More than 2,000 delegates from more than 100 countries expected to come to Valladolid for the Summit next year.

Sam Daley-Harris, CEO of Microcredit summit campaign said, “I hope that like me, the Summit in Valladolid will bring profound changes in thinking and action for the delegates.  We are delighted to work with the National Host Committee that is being introduced t.  We are grateful for their partnership and for the contribution they will make to a successful Summit, a Summit that brings us closer to the end of poverty and to the unleashing of the human spirit.”

“They will come to further the Summit’s goals for 2015: to reach 175 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services and to ensure 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold, “He added.

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