| Episode | | Interviewee | | Description | Size |
23
| | Julie Redfern
| | Just a small loan can mean a world of difference for an enterprising Afghan woman and her family living in poverty. Take the challenge! Through the Afghanistan Challenge – a partnership of MEDA and CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) – your small donation can make a big difference, and put a whole family on the road to prosperity.
Your donation is matched by the Government of Canada, so it has twice the impact! Listen in as Julie Redfern, MEDA's director of microfinance, talks about how MEDA, with Women for Women Microfinance Institution, is helping another 10,000 women entrepreneurs start and grow a business and see new hope for their future.
Or go to www.medatrust.ca to donate now or start your own portfolio so you can watch as the loan is repaid and loan that money out to another deserving loan recipient!
| ~5MB
|
22
| | Jared Penner
| | Jared Penner talks about the work that MEDA is doing with youth in Afghanistan in a new project, Afghanistan Secure Futures. Jared notes there is an optimism that Afghans want to turn the country around, and they see it with youth: This is the generation that will usher in a new future for their country.
| ~5MB
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21
| | Brenda Burkholder
| | Brenda Burkholder of member relations talks about her recent trip to Afghanistan, how she came to MEDA, and how economic development marries with peace building: "It seems to me that where there is economic satisfaction and where there is education available, it makes it possible for people to make different choices other than violence."
| ~5MB |
20
| | Scott Ruddick
| | "We give people tangibles," says Scott Ruddick, MEDA's manager of cross-cutting services, "but even more important, they can have hope through their own hard work." Scott discusses how issues such as gender, the environment and disease, such as HIV/AIDS, impact MEDA's work in economic development, and the importance of measuring and evaluating our work to ensure we are doing the best job possible.
| ~4.9MB
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| 19 | | Jennifer Denomy
| | A new MEDA project in Morocco and Egypt is helping to bring new hope for the future to a part of the world where large numbers of youth are unemployed. MEDA's Jennifer Denomy explains how a program called Youth Invest will not only provide much-needed business and career training to help youth find a job or start their own business, but will also help them access credit to launch sustainable livelihoods.
| ~4.9MB
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| 18 | | Ann Gordon
| | In Pakistan, women often live in isolation – many are homebound and illiterate. Ann Gordon, MEDA senior consultant and project manager, explains in this episode of MEDA’s World how MEDA is building on the success of a previous project called Behind the Veil with a new project. Pathways & Pursestrings focuses on women working in the embellished fabric, glass bangle, milk and seedling industry to bring them into the marketplace so they can start small businesses and help support their families.
| ~4.9MB
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17
| | Ian Howard
| | MEDA's new Sarona Green adds a third dimension to MEDA's traditional work of bringing business solutions to poverty by also focusing on care creation. This month on MEDA's World, Ian Howard talks about how Sarona Green invests in triple-bottom-line projects and companies in developing countries. Sarona Green includes a carbon offset program, a donation program and an investment fund - so anyone can participate.
| ~4.9MB |
16
| | Gerhard Pries
| | What is investment fund development? On this episode of MEDA’s World, vice president Gerhard Pries explains how his department at MEDA helps to establish private investment as an effective solution to global poverty. Through IFD, MEDA accesses private sector capital here in North America and brings it into developing countries to benefit poor communities there.
| ~4.9MB |
15
| | Nigel Motts
| | MEDA is helping Ukraine farmers till Russian Mennonites' ancestral soil as part of a new project. With excellent soil and a great climate, there is tremendous opportunity for small landholders in Ukraine, reports Nigel Motts. He leads the $8 million project, funded by CIDA, called SUPPER – Southeast Ukraine Planting for Prosperity and Economic Rejuvenation | ~4.9MB
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14
| | Jerry Quigley | | In Africa, malaria is a leading cause of death among children. But a MEDA project in Tanzania, Hati Punguzo, is saving thousands of lives simply by making sure that pregnant women and children – those most susceptible to malaria – sleep under mosquito nets every night. Jerry Quigley talks about how this seemingly simple solution must also be sustainable beyond the life of the project so these life-giving nets remain available.
| ~14MB |
13
| | Alex Snelgrove | | Small farmers in Zambia find it difficult to save enough money to
purchase irrigation technology that will help lift them out of poverty.
But MEDA's Alex Snelgrove has seen how a new voucher system will change
all that. | ~13MB
|
12
| | Ben Fowler | | MEDA's business approach to poverty can also help care for creation.
Listen to Ben Fowler on this month's MEDA's World radio show to learn
how a new project in a Peruvian mangrove forest will do both. | ~13MB
|
11
| | Jennifer Denomy | | This month on MEDA's World, Jennifer Denomy shares the hopes and dreams
that children in Egypt can now realize with the educational
opportunities and safer working environments created through MEDA's
work there. | ~13MB
|
| 10 | | Nicole Pasricha | | MEDA senior microfinance consultant Nicole Pasricha talks about the
positive impact of microfinance on Afghan women and their families. | ~13MB
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| 9 | | Alexandra Epp and Stephanie Shuh | | The views of two young women: Alexandra Epp reports her visit to
Afghanistan was "an experience like no other," while Stephanie Shuh
says her trip to Tanzania prompted her to write about "the Africa that
I thought I knew." | ~17MB |
| 8 | | Rachel Hess | | Rachel Hess, of production-marketing linkages, talks about
how MEDA's community economic development programs address gaps in the
system – because pockets of poverty do exist in North America. | ~13MB
|
7
| | Marion Good | | MEDA member Marion Good and member engagement director
Howard Good (no relation) talk about how joining MEDA impacts members’
lives by focusing on faith and work, business and development. | ~35MB
|
6
| | Ed Epp | | Ed Epp, MEDA’s former vice president for resource development, talks
about interesting new developments with MEDA Trust, the online
opportunity to help the poor by giving them a little credit. | ~14MB |
5
| | Ruth Dueck Mbeba | | MEDA staff member Ruth Dueck Mbeba talks about an East African irrigation
project that involves MEDA’s production marketing linkages (PML) and
microfinance (MF) areas. | ~13MB |
4
| | Jared Penner | | MEDA staff member Jared Penner reflects on how a younger generation is
pushing cross-cutting social issues in international development in
MEDA’s work. | ~13MB |
| 3 | | Helen Loftin | | MEDA Staff member Helen Loftin takes takes us on a journey to Afghanistan. | ~13MB |
2
| | Gloria Eby | | Interview with MEDA board member Gloria Eby.
| ~13MB |
1
| | Allan Sauder
| | Interview with MEDA president Allan Sauder. | 2.8MB |
