In recent years, the enthusiasm for microfinance has grown in leaps and bounds. The following is an up-close look at the good, the bad and the ugly of microfinance, and how to capitalize on the good. The Good: Opportunities for income, especially for women, are often limited in many developing countries, and microloan empowers the [...]
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Let’s Talk Microfinance
Posted by Casey on January 14th, 2012
Posted in Business Training, Poverty 
Tags: economic growth, Global Breakthrough, India, microfinance, microloans, poverty, Pro Mujer 
No Comments »Thailand Update 11/3/11
Posted by Alicia on November 3rd, 2011
Members of the Global Breakthrough team are currently in Thailand teaching at business seminars geared towards girls who are wanting to come out of the sex trade and pick up business skills to make a life for themselves that doesn’t include the bondage of sex slavery. President of Global Breakthrough, Jeff McKinley, writes: “Our team [...]
Students in Free Enterprise: Making a Difference World-Wide
Posted by Casey on August 10th, 2011
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), is a student led non-profit organization that is rapidly gaining attention with their world-wide program, impacting nearly 1,300 different universities. SIFE makes it possible for university students to make a difference in their communities while developing their business skills. One particular university, the Shri Ram College of Commerce, has excelled [...]
Modern Day Slavery
Posted by Alicia on March 21st, 2011
Recently we took a filming crew on a trip with us to Thailand so that they could record the voices and stories of human trafficking victims. Watch this video and learn about the cycle of poverty which drives so many girls to end up enslaved in the sex industry. Then email us or donate and [...]
Business Hope Centers
Posted by Casey on February 6th, 2011
In the last two months, Global Breakthrough has seen vision become reality as we celebrate the opening of our first business education center in Pattaya, Thailand. Officially known as the Business Hope Center, it is designed to host business seminars, provide one-on-one mentoring as well as a wealth of other opportunities. The goal of the [...]
Update from Thailand – Nov 4/10
Posted by Cameron on November 4th, 2010
On November 1st, the Global Breakthrough Business team returned to Thailand to open the training centers in Pattaya as well as to make more contacts in the Northern regions where many of the victims of human trafficking originate. We’ll be posting updates from the team in this blog as well as on our twitter and [...]
Spreading Awareness
Posted by Cameron on September 29th, 2010
This fall Global Breakthrough will be heading to Thailand with our business team as well as a filming crew. Our business development team will be holding training sessions in order to equip trafficked people and those enslaved in the sex industry with a way out so that they will not be forced to resort to [...]
