Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting. Plane loads of lawyers …
Category: ACORN International
Demanding Remittances be Regulated by Governments
New Orleans In December ACORN International released its study and survey of remittances entitled Past Time for Remittance Justice (www.remittancejustice.org) . The bottom line is that we demanded that banks and money transfer organizations (MTOs, i.e. Western Union and MoneyGram) reduce all charges and fees for transferring money from migrant workers and immigrant families back to …
Super Volunteers with a Super Idea for Micro-Finance Borrowers – Help!
New Orleans ACORN International is hard at work right now on pulling together all of the pieces and pressure on our Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) as we try to tighten the screws on banks and money transfer organizations, but we are keeping our eyes open on our next campaign around microfinance. Melanie Craxton, a student …