Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba August world lenders pledge million to mainly women world Bank offers Loans to poor Folk by Charles Abbott Reuters Washington the world Bank will soon pro vide funds for Micro Loans to the earths poorest primarily the As Small As and made through local could have a powerful effect in improving income and reducing poverty in the developing officials said the demand for these Loans among women is said Bank Vic president Ismail ser chairman of the Consulta Tive group to assist the created in june to implement the microloan donor Banks and institutions have pledged million us for the three fourths of it will go to institutions that lend mainly to about million us has been collected so disbursement will begin in two or three by aiming at the poorest Seg ments of a focus on women was Mohini administrator of the said in an interview the most destitute Heads of households Are she and they also face Many obstacles to gaining property rights favor men and Many a Man is required to cosign a loan that goes to a poor women have a Stellar record in repaying Aid officials also note that worn ens income goes to activities that promote family such As better diets and health we see this As a new Model for development Mol Hani by encouraging lenders to reach a segment now often unable to get were really looking at trans forming the Way financial institutions she describing the project As marrying develop ment and Charity and sus these Arent in several Banks for the poor already exist but they Are often which limits their the Cap microloan program will work through institutions such As credit unions and Banks that have a record of lending to the very Muhammad president of the Graveen Bank in which works with two million poor will chair a panel of expert advisers to in a report on a similar the International food policy research based in said women were an untapped source of productivity gains in food out put in developing if women were Given the same resources As developing countries would see significant increases in agricultural product the authors of the women the key to food buying a computer virtual videos Back to school Sale has a full line up for student savers Home office business machines All systems come Complete with windows see us today or custom built systems upgrades multimedia e Portage w 747 Wall St Wolver virtual video 7830447 fax 7863259 a Gas one draw per week until if youre vacationing away from Home this simply provide us with a restart Date at the time you suspend delivery and Well enter your name in our weekly bbl Call 6977001 weekdays weekends or toll free 18005428900 Winnipeg free press Ashanti King celebrates 25 years on the throne by Beth Duff Brown associated press Ghana first came the pounding of Leop Ards in Drums to signal their then the rub red velvet fringed in flapping up and Down like ele Phant ears above their Royal they slowly streamed in by the hour after the Kings and Queens of the chiefs and Deputy chiefs of with their encourages bearing gifts of Golden swords and Ebony they came to in West yesterday to pay homage to the Ashanti his majesty Tum up Opoku Ware one of the continents most powerful and revered who was Cele Brating 25 years on his Golden Allday procession the Allday known As the grand was a Brilliant spectacle of Africa in All its Rich and proud the King is what makes the Ashanti said Paul Prince of the Offin up clan of and we love him somehow in the he loves everybody the Ashanti belong to the akan ethnic group that comprises about 40 per cent of Ghanas 15 million their heartland of 260 Kilometres North Ashanti King Otumfo Opoku Ware ii enters Royal reception yesterday in of the capital of is full of Gold and Timber that for 300 years has made them among the wealthiest and most powerful african ethnic about people came from around the world for a rare glimpse of the Golden which is brought out of the Kings Palace Only once every five this year the Day was yes the solid Gold which is never sat even by the King is said to have been sent to Earth As a message from heaven to form the the entourage of thousands created a Bright tapestry in their Gold embossed silk and Cotton gowns and fearless priests fight mafia on its own turf by Daniel associated press Sicily they a dead Junkie across the Street from Paolo Turturro he was from another and the body haunt been dumped there by a lambs head trickled blood on Gino Sacchetti youll end up the same said an attached Gregorio an Assis Tant pastor transferred from one of the cites poorest neighbourhoods after his pastor was awoke to find his Peugeot a burned out after decades of Church a Core of priests has emerged who Are fighting the mafia in its own these priests number about a dozen and mostly work in they publish anti mafia news let organize open help to set up Busi they work in devastated neighbourhoods that Are mafia Breeding where unemployment is Over 50 per where second world War bomb damage is still and Many of these men of god travel under police its Clear that arrests of big Bosses and drug seizures alone will never wipe out a criminal enter prise Woven into much of Sicily social along with economic jobs for the Young and a truly functioning lawmen and social observers say Italy has to end the silent complicity that allows the mafia to in traditionally religious sicilian priests can play a powerful in at a National Church conference in the sicilian dioceses plan to push for a Church wide commitment to com bating the anti mafia priests have been very important because they mobilized says bar tolomeo who runs a Jesuit political science Institute in paler they represent a Sharp Chal Lenge to Cosa Nostra by removing the moral consensus of the people toward the he but the night of showed just How serious the mafia takes the As Giuseppe Puglisi was walking toward his front someone shot him fatally in the just before his Puglisi had stepped up his anti mafia preaching after Pope John Paul ii used a trip to Sicily to Issue a ring ing condemnation of the shoppers cursing Saddam Soninlaw by Leon Barkho Reuters Pope praises Angels of Comfort Reuters Castel Italy Pope John in the latest of a series of remarks on the role of praised them yesterday for their work with the delivering his weekly Angelus message at his sum Mer residence outside the Pope thanked the countless women who have acted As Angels of com fort for the thanks to women who work with the suf the elderly in in Hospital wards and in Mission the Pope the Pope has made a number of statements on the role of women in recent weeks ahead of a United nation sponsored conference on women in Beijing next in a 19page letter last the Pope apologized for the roman Catholic Church past role in the oppression of women but reaffirmed his opposition to women Baghdad shoppers in Baghdad cursed the Sonin Law of president Saddam Hussein blaming him for Steep Price rises since he defected and fled to Jordan last his blood has to be spilled in return for his a woman named urn Ali said of Hussein Kamel Iraq Mil itary Mastermind who defected with his brother and their wives both daughters of an old Man in shabby clothes said he must be Why did it he do what he wanted to do while still Here instead of fleeing with millions of dollars that is the Way cowards prices have soared since the High level an iraqi civil servant earns about dinars a month on average and traders said one kilo Gram of cooking Oil has jumped to dinars from and a tray of 30 eggs to from they said flour is in Short the iraqi Dinar has tumbled to new lows against the which yesterday was Worth about dinars on the Black Market compared last tired of covering up your problem toenails discoloured toenails can be a sign of fungal Nail this Hardt treat condition afflicts too Many dont give there is a Cost effective Way to Deal with the ask your doctor or foot specialist on your next routine or Call 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As a Boutros Ghali said in a signed article yesterday in the Washington it should be undertaken without the United nations is Bank he Cash resources do not meet either current needs or current As of the end of in Mem Bers owed billion us in unpaid and the United states the largest debtor the organization Bil the Secretary general the organizations excessive dependence on the assessments from a single member state is he its deteriorating finances reflect the Low priority Given to the United nations among the political and budgetary of Many member discussion of assessments is expected at the coming in Gen eral the United states has always paid the highest based on population and ability to with rates fixed by the Assem americas last major dues change came at the end of the maximum pay applying Only to the United was Low cutting the assessment from per cent to 25 per cent of the in general lower dues legislators Are again press ing for lower in dues and con Gress has been limiting payments to current assessments without reducing besides the 25 per cent general the United states gets billed for 30 per cent of fast rising peacekeeping Canadas assessment for both peacekeeping and general costs comes to about three per Canada paid its 1995 dues earlier this other major dues payers Are Britain and ;