Microfinance Helping Women in Bangkok Step Ahead of Poverty

This week I’m happy to share a guest post from Marisa Deyoung, who volunteers for Step Ahead, an organization mentoring micro-entrepreneurs in Bangkok’s largest slum community, Klong Toey. Serving with Step Ahead in Thailand and previously in Northeast India has helped put a face and family to poverty for me. These experiences have also helped [...]

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Over Entertained & Under Challenged

Would you consider you or your community over entertained and/or under challenged? When you finish reading, share your thoughts and enjoy the social entrepreneurship video from the Skoll Foundation. Blame it on the ubiquity of advertising that has made every inch of public space available for purchase. Blame it on being submerged in a tourism [...]

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