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Village Banking Campaign News

FINCA Launches Village Banking Campaign: Jordan's Queen Rania Al-Abdullah and Academy Award-nominated actress Natalie Portman co-chair effort to bring Village Banking to millions of the world’s poorest; announce expansion into Middle East and grant from AIG (press release), May 2, 2007.

(The Village Banking Campaign was announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in September, 2006.)

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Time
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Entertainment Weekly
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Newsweek Magazine: Newsmakers Q&A with Natalie Portman, June 4, 2007

Time Magazine: 10 Questions with Queen Rania, May 21, 2007

Kansas City Star: "FINCA helps desperately poor people in 21 countries by providing business loans." (editorial, May 18, 2007)

Bloomberg: Natalie Portman, AIG Promote FINCA's Microcredit for Destitute, May 9, 2007

USA Today: Natalie Portman, "a fierce voice for world's poor," May 4, 2007

Philadelphia Inquirer: "Portman, a serious force," May 4, 2007

NBC's Today: "Queen Rania of Jordan discusses microfinancing," with co-host Meredith Viera, May 3, 2007

Financial Times Lauds Launch of Village Banking Campaign, New York, May 3, 2007

Agence France Presse: "Jordan's Queen Rania joins microcredit campaign to fight poverty," May 2, 2007

At right: FINCA's Ambassador of Hope Natalie Portman with economist Hernando de Soto, President of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy

Entertainment Weekly: "Banking on Natalie Portman's Passion": The actress tells EW.com about her work for FINCA, a group that boosts female entrepreneurship with loans in poor nations and the subject of her upcoming documentary

Salon.com: "Portman Endorses Microloans for Women," April 30, 2007

PR Newswire: Village Banking Campaign Launched by Microfinance Pioneer FINCA International, New York, May 2, 2007

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