Monthly Archives: November 2011

Vietnam: Tour 2011-11-20 Continue reading →

Getting the big Japanese community more involved in our microfinance tours and poverty alleviation in rural Vietnam: We have created our first ever info card in Japanese! Thanks a lot to Will and Eijiro for their excellent translation skills! Continue reading →

Congratulation to Ms. Đỗ Thị Quý who has just repaid her first loan. We are really glad that the profit from her loan has enabled her to enroll her five year old grandson to school for the first time. With better education Khải, our little expl… Continue reading →

Dear Supporters, Two months ago, we met a highly innovative, hard working and inspirational woman, Ms Nguyễn Thị Vân. She is our first borrower to request a loan to grow flowers instead of traditional crops such as rice and corn. Flowers are much… Continue reading →

Bloom Microventures now known to potentially millions?! We have just been promoted and mentioned in “The Times” (yes, THE Times from London!), as the one day trip to take in Hanoi. Absolutely awesome. The article (http://thetim.es/u2jrpq) unfortunatel… Continue reading →

Vietnam: Tour 2011-11-13 Continue reading →

“We have been voted among the UK’s Future 100 leading young social enterprises of 2011! http://bit.ly/sgtFUD The award “celebrates the success of young social entrepreneurs that are leading a sustainable and ethical business, and providing the future g… Continue reading →

Bloom Microventures just featured in The Word Hanoi, Hanoi’s most popular expat magazine, as one of the growing number of responsible travel organisations in Vietnam. With us, as they write, “intrepid travellers … see a side to Vietnam that could nev… Continue reading →

Vietnam: Tour 2011-11-06 Continue reading →

Vietnam: bringing the community together in Soc Son Continue reading →