Five years after the 'Year of Microcredit' Radio Netherlands Worldwide takes the debate on microfinance a step further.
The theme will be central to RNW broadcasts via radio and the internet from January 2010 and Radio Netherlands is organising a special meeting on the issue.
In this way, the international broadcaster wants to draw the attention of a wide audience to the opportunities and difficulties involved in microfinance.
Meeting
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is organising the meeting ''Microfinance: Who profits?" in the Peace Palace in The Hague on 25 January 2010. Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima and Development Minister Bert Koenders will address the meeting.
In addition, distinguished international experts will consider the question who benefits from microfinance. Tortilla baker Linda Flores from Nicaragua will speak on how microcredit changed her life.
If you want to follow the meeting live on 25 January, watch the live steam in this web dossier.
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Princess Máxima of the Netherlands will deliver a speech at a meeting on microcredit hosted by Radio Netherlands Worldwide on 25 January 2010.
The event, which takes place in the International Court of Justice building in The Hague, is part of a multimedia project aiming to present the possibilities of microcredits to a worldwide audience.
Development Aid Minister Bert Koenders will also speak at the conference, where 150 invitees from all over the world will be focusing on the question who is benefiting from microfinancing.
On 5 January Radio Netherlands Worldwide will launch a web dossier in four languages about microfinancing on its website, www.rnw.nl.
Microcredits, small loans under favourable conditions, enable individual people in poor countries to set up their own companies and earn a living.
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