"Working Toward a World Without Poverty"
The 4th
Omaha
Peace & Justice
Expo
Saturday April 26, 2008
9:30am – 5:00 pm
Lewis & Clark Middle School
6901 Burt St.
Keynote Speaker:Sam Daley-Harris
author of Reclaiming Our DemocracyDedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty
Sam Daley-Harris is president and founder of RESULTS Educational Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to mass educational strategies to generate the will to end world hunger. RESULTS Educational Fund organized the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC. The Summit was attended by more than 2,900 participants from 137 countries and launched a nine-year campaign to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005. By the end of 2006 the Microcredit Summit Campaign had made loans to more than 133 million people, 93 million of whom were among the world's poorest. Almost 85 percent are women, and the loan repayment rate is about 98 percent.
Mr. Daley-Harris is also founder and president of RESULTS, an international citizens’ lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty. Mr. Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about which President Jimmy Carter said, “[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future.” Mr. Daley-Harris is also editor of Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families.
Mr. Daley-Harris lives in Washington, DC with his wife Shannon, who is a consultant with the Religious Affairs Division of the Children’s Defense Fund. Their son Micah was born in May 1998 and daughter Sophie was born in May 2001.
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