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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2009 Five Talents International
Vienna, Virginia — Colleen Dyble of Falls Church, Va., begins a new chapter today as she boards a plane for Lima, Peru.
Dyble is one of this year’s Five Talents Fellows. As a fellow, she will be working as a development and marketing specialist for ECLOF-Peru through July 2010. Since 2005, Five Talents has been partnering with the Anglican Diocese of Peru and the Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF), in Lima. ECLOF provides group loans, training and business development to poor entrepreneurs in 30 locations across Peru. Five Talents is funding ECLOF’s program in the slum areas of the district of San Juan de Miraflores and its expansion into Huancavelica, the poorest district in Peru. Dyble will assist with the organization’s expansion to reach more of the poorest people in Peru through economic and spiritual development, by creating strategic development and marketing plans and communicating the organization’s compelling message. She will be looking at financial, spiritual and social impacts of microloans on the entrepreneur’s family and community and documenting microfinance institutions’ “best practices.” She will also be acting as the eyes and ears in the field in order to provide information for Five Talents marketing materials and strategic plans. “We are excited about Colleen’s work raising awareness of the plight of the poor in some of the most poverty-stricken areas in Peru,” said Craig Cole, Five Talents President and CEO. Originally from Albuquerque, N.M., she is a 2000 graduate from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., where she studied international political economy and Spanish. She graduated in 2007 from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., with a master’s in international commerce and policy. She is a member of The Falls Church in Falls Church, Va. The Five Talents Fellows program was created as a response to the demand from both partners asking for assistance with specific projects and from volunteers desiring to lend their talents to serve the poor through christian microfinance. The program is designed to strengthen the work and mission of Five Talents to fight poverty, create jobs and transform lives by advancing the goals of its local partner institutions with meaningful projects or research. Established in 1999, Five Talents International has provided funding for business training and thousands of loans, ranging from $50 to $300, in 15 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each loan finances a microbusiness that, in turn, supports up to nine other people. A majority of the loan recipients are women. Five Talents’ ongoing work is supported by a staff based in Vienna, Va., and an office in London, England. For more information, visit www.FiveTalents.org. | ||
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