Another day with the Dia Vikas team yesterday – going through how our Indian microfinance partners are performing and focusing on where we can assist them. IT is always a challenge for our partners; funding is another persistent issue, as well as finding good staff. I could be talking about PwC or Westpac, organisations face the same issues all over the world, hey?
Floods in Orissa and Bihar have displaced two million people. Two million people! That’s half of Sydney. Hard to comprehend and you’d probably think that with so many problems in the world that there’s no one there to help. Well, you’d be wrong this time. We have a partner in Orissa –Adhikar – that has clients in six branches that have been affected. So Dia Vikas offered to make a small amount of funds available for clients of Adhikar for immediate relief. Nice you say. But here’s the best bit – Adhikar replied no thanks, the government are doing a great job helping, we and the clients are fine. Sometimes it works like it should and for that it gives us hope. And we like hope.
Stephen Penny
Chief Financial Officer
Opportunity International Australia
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