Who is FINCA???

This is the start of my blogging endeavors ...

Our mission ... is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living.

Our vision ... is to become the leading global microfinance institution by providing financial services to more than one million clients annually, while operating with the highest commercial principles of performance, transparency and sustainability.

The sooner that we can hit that milestone the better, for then we want to reach the next million, and the next million and the next, and the next ... those in need are in dire need!!! So, soon, sooner, soonest only makes urgent sense.

We operate in the following 21 countries ...

• Africa - Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda & Zambia
• Latin America - Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico & Nicaragua
• Eurasia - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Russia & Tajikistan
• Greater Middle East - Afghanistan & Jordan

I have had the privilege of visiting 17 of these countries. They are really rich in history, full of beauty (each in its own unique way), rife with poverty, and yet the people have the humanity that is infectious, heart warming and equally embarassing. Why embarassing? It is embarassing for the likes of us from the so-called modern, progressive, capitalist world of the west for we have lost touch with that humanity that these people so lovingly exude even when they have so little; and they willingly share what little they have.