About RUMI

The Rutgers University Microfinance Initiative (RUMI) is a student run organization established via a social action project sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL).  It was established to raise both awareness about the feminization of global poverty on our college campus and funds to provide small denominational loans to third world women.

What is Microfinance

Microfinance is the supply of financial services for poor people in developing countries. It includes microcredit or microloans, which are small amounts of money lent to poor people to finance self-employment activities or for other purposes.

Support RUMI and RUTGERS in OxFam America's Collegiate Click Drive:

The click drive is a national competition between colleges to see who can raise the most money for microfinance by clicking every day at the website www.povertyfighters.com.  For each click, corporate sponsors donate $.25
to micro-loans.  You can click up to twice a day from your computer.  We've alread raised over $180!  Keep clicking and we'll raise even more! 

1) Put povertyfighters.com in your away message or AIM profile.
2) Let people know in your email signature file.
3) Make it your homepage so that you don't forget to click!

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