The Global Credit Union Podcast – Episode 29: GWLN 2023 Empowerment Grant winners
CHIMGEE , NERGUI (September 21, 2023) — Partnership Specialist at the Mongolian National Confederation of Credit Unions, and Violet Ndungu, CEO of Muki SACCO in Kenya, are the Global Women’s Leadership Network’s (GWLN) 2023 Empowerment Grant recipients. They were selected from four finalists who gave presentations on their Empowerment Grant proposals during the GWLN Forum at the 2023 World Credit Union Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Both women are the featured guests on Episode 29 of The Global Credit Union Podcast to discuss being awarded $10,000 each to implement projects aimed at helping rural farmers and agricultural producers earn more income—and do it in a more climate resilient way—through credit unions.
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