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			<title>Does Microfinance Work? Does it do more Harm than Good?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Microfinance has come into the news lately, in part because of this new book and in part, because there are issues with some microfinance programs. Microfinance is often part of the financial sectors that have gotten themselves in a mess. Like them, there is over lending, over leveraging and just plain bad management. I&#039;ve seen some of these. But I&#039;ve also seen some powerful examples of what microfinance can do. Check out SEWA Bank on my links, for example. 800,000 women in a trade union with a cooperative, small scale pharmacies, literacy, marketing, producer and service cooperatives. They even offer pension schemes and daily savings collection. Most of these incredibly savvy and resourceful women are illiterate. Much of my work has been with savings groups and cooperatives but I&#039;ve also seen some very effective microfinance programs. KixiCredito, Angola, also on my links is one of these examples. Polarizations are provocative but in the real world, it&#039;s messier and more complex. There is always good, bad and ugly. But don&#039;t take my word for it. Ask the women themselves. <br /><br />Click on the Related Link below for an interview that I did with the Halifax Media Coop on these issues. ]]></description>
			<category>Microfinance</category>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:13:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Arusha Savings Group Summit</title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry111009-103747</link>
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			<category>Microfinance</category>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Prelude</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Before it breaks <br />even before it <br />begins with the<br />ache of sky, its <br />low belly drum roll. Powder <br />blue holds its own <br />against barrelling grey. <br />Could be a rumble, baby.  <br /><br />Air muck-thick, bloated. Weight of<br />stout in champagne. Sink in<br />the spray. A whiff of dirt. <br />Who knows but I trust<br />this heft. <br /><br />Spit and silence rock the <br />tender trees,<br />could take this <br />anywhere <br />dripping green, almost <br />water and well <br />before the floods on<br />the dewy lip of<br />riot. <br /><br /><br /><br />]]></description>
			<category>Poetry and Writing</category>
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			<author>Nanci Lee</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:29:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Paddling in Keji</title>
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			<category>Outdoor adventure</category>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:07:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Arts in Transformative Learning</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Peter Taylor (IDRC formerly IDS, University of Sussex) and I just finished an article on the transformative potential of arts in learning and social change. It draws on examples of poetry, creative writing and experiences of innovative practice shared by adult educators through an e-forum from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The paper provides a conceptual frame to explore tensions in adult learning between the mytho-poetic and the critical-rational, and between the individual and the collective. It will be published in the Journal of Adult and Contiuing Education in October.Contact me if you&#039;d like a copy.<br />  ]]></description>
			<category>Adult and Popular Education</category>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:54:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Stars</title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry110503-205749</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There were only two poems left<br />One was a word <br />The other a hand <br />The hand could not hold the word<br />The word could not read the hand<br />But a star chattered to them one night<br />They considered what they had heard<br />If you are right, then one of us is not needed<br />What if both of us are simultaneously true?<br />Then we don’t need to be two different poems<br />What if there aren’t really two of us?<br />Then one of us is dead<br />What if both of us are dead?<br />Then there is no need for stars <br /><br /><br />Published in THIS Magazine, January 2012. <br />]]></description>
			<category>Poetry and Writing</category>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 23:57:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Distance Course on Savings Groups </title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry110501-101139</link>
			<description><![CDATA[From February to May, I facilitated a 15-week distance (online) course on community-based microfinance for the Coady Institute with co-facilitators from India and Zimbabwe. Savings group practitioners stayed in their organizations and communities while deepening their practice. The course used a hands-on, peer-exchange, participatory learning format including field-based assignments. <br /><br />We had participants from Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, India and Guyana. Join us next February. Bursaries are available for field practitioners from the Global South.<br /><br /><a href="http://coady.stfx.ca/education/distance/momf/" target="_blank" >http://coady.stfx.ca/education/distance/momf/</a>]]></description>
			<category>Adult and Popular Education</category>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:11:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Four Men Stole Munch&#039;s Scream</title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry110312-183031</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two carried the mouth and two the burnt horizon.  Later, it was taken again with the Madonna. The Scream had moisture damage and Madonna suffered several tears on the right side. At first, I read tears and imagined a second soaked canvas. When Claire gave up her child her voice rebelled as if making up for the sound she didn’t use to shout no. Words fell out stunned. They flew. Over the wailing walls. Over lovers with loudspeakers. Collapsed statues and graveyards of long silence. Winds carried them to the ocean, into the eyes of lost ships. They spread out on the sea floors, got caught in the coral. This is the cumulative colour of scream. My birth mother found me decades later, only to lose her own mom. This was a sign, she was sure of it. The gods made her a trade for silence. Gave her a piece of horizon. Carried away her mouth. 	<br /><br />Earlier version published in FreeFall Magazine (October, 2010)<br /> <br />]]></description>
			<category>Poetry and Writing</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Green transportation in Europe</title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry110307-160828</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two miles of solar panels to power Antwerp station and Belgian train system. Will we ever catch on to Europe&#039;s green transportation systems?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/06/tunnel-solar-belgium-rail" target="_blank" >http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... lgium-rail</a>]]></description>
			<category>Inspiring</category>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Disappearance</title>
			<link>http://www.nancilee.ca/index.php?entry=entry110219-160127</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<br />Fire-fly fits. Skree of rain. A curious <br />cobweb drapes the lake’s centre<br /><br />somehow. Silken threads of  <br />lyric. The paddle slips diamonds into <br /><br />ebony yawn. This is how the tale <br />begins. Ecstatic hush over reeds, <br /><br />river grasses. Rapunzel as mermaid, <br />languid locks of viridian. She <br /><br />fell twenty ells from the castle and <br />naked as an eel learned to swim. <br /><br />You cannot predict too much until it is<br />upon you. Tree-line always fickle. <br /><br />**<br />Cloud of bird. Swells <br />and hollows disembodied. <br />Rebodied.   There’s something <br />massive going on here.  Cellular. <br />phantom.        	We’re hungry<br /> for the common <br />story, its taut flesh <br />tango. We dive and bank, <br />shift-shape  casting <br />molten. Holding edge<br />curved straight into <br />the swerve – <br />twisting its tail, <br />opening its throat.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Earlier version published in Rhizoma, October, 2010<br />Special issue on Paulo Freire<br />]]></description>
			<category>Poetry and Writing</category>
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			<author>Nanci Lee</author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:01:27 GMT</pubDate>
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