Shared Interest News

Today, South African Women’s Day, we are thrilled to share with you a radio segment that aired last night on Marketplace (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/08/08/PM200708087.html a leading business and financial radio program, featuring Shared Interest’s innovative model to expand credit and banking to impoverished communities in South Africa. Marketplace is currently broadcast by more than 330 public radio stations nationwide with more than 8 million listeners.

With reporting in the U.S. and South Africa, this radio segment highlights the passionate commitment of the Carlisle investor group to raise resources for Shared Interest and entrepreneurs from the successful Hands-On Fishing project in the Western Cape.

 To hear the segment please click on http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/08/08/PM200708087.html.

(Please consult the market place website www.marketplace.org) to find out when the radio program is aired on your local station.) Please also feel free to share this email with at least five other people, so they too will be inspired to build support for economic justice and democracy in South Africa. For more information on Shared Interest and how you can advance this work, please visit Shared Interest us at http://www.sharedinterest.org.

In the article below, we are pleased to spotlight Neo Mogape, Production Manager of Tropical Mushrooms – one of the unsung heroines of South Africa’s small business sector.  She is one of the 750,000 women who have benefited from our work since 1994.  One of the many who are leading South African women’s daily struggle to sustain their families and communities, and reshape their country’s economy.  We invite you to celebrate this day with us – and with them.

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