Celebrate FINCA’s 25th Birthday!

FINCA clients and staff across five continents are marking a historic milestone in 2010—our 25th year of providing life-changing small loans and other financial services to help struggling families break the cycle of poverty! In honor of our anniversary, we've redesigned our site to make it livelier and easier to navigate, so you can see how you are helping FINCA change the world one woman, one family, one community at a time. We've created and refreshed loads of exciting special features, including:

• FINCA's History - learn how we met the challenges of building a network serving over 700,000 clients across 21 countries.
  
• Client Stories - see some of the most moving stories of FINCA clients and learn how your support has helped them transform their families' lives.
  
• Client Research - FINCA actively conducts rigorous customer research throughout our network to better understand who our clients are, and what effect microfinance has on their lives. Find out how our researchers do their work and what they learn...and how we apply this knowledge to improve our life-changing financial services.
  
• Spread the Word - offers different ways to connect with FINCA and spread the word.

FINCA Founder Recalls Inspiration that led to FINCA and Imagines Future Free of Poverty FINCA founder John Hatch recently recalled the moment, 25 years ago, when he conceived of, “a new idea for helping subsistence farmers and other severely poor families pull themselves out of poverty.” From his inspiration has flowered a network of programs across 21 countries, serving over 700,000 families. “Yet our best years lie ahead,” he writes. “I never tire of predicting that within the next 25 years the global microfinance movement is destined to serve the entirety of the world’s poor, thus allowing mankind to abolish poverty altogether.” Read all of John’s letter to FINCA supporters.

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