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Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch $12.9m Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country. The new fund is the result of a 2006 study conducted by the DTI’s Gender and Women Empowerment Unit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and FinMark. The study found that although women are more responsible managers of credit than men, they only receive 30 percent of loans, with black women receiving the least funding.

Old Mutual and South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Launch USD 12.9M Microfinance Initiative, Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF)
The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa (previously reported) has teamed with Old Mutual Group’s Masisizane Fund to launch the Isivande Women’s Fund (IWF), financing women-run enterprises in the country.

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If You're Looking for Dedication Hire the Disabled
People with disabilities are almost three times more likely to live in poverty than people without disabilities. The disabled with jobs has remained steady at 35% for roughly twenty years. Employers complain about employees who don't care about their jobs, and yet there is a vast resource of workers who are ready, willing, anxious, determined and able just looking for an opportunity.

Web Accessibility And Your Website
When we talk about web accessibility we tend to mean accessibility for people with disabilities. However, it is beneficial to look at site accessibility in broader terms. If your site is inaccessible to any particular group of people then you are losing out on potential visitors.

6 Quick and Easy Accessibility Issues That Make Your Visitors Happy
As more and more users gain access to the web it becomes increasingly important to ensure that your website is accessible to all, not just a few. Just as businesses must comply with the American Disabilities Act to ensure proper access to customers with disabilities, businesses should do all they can to make their websites accessible to all users regardless of the means in which they access the site. And of course not all accessibility issues involve meeting the needs of the disabled. What must be considered is the growing number of users that now access websites through non-traditional means, whether it be mobile phones or with images turned off. These users can still be your target audience and ensuring your site can be used through alternate avenues is essential to capturing that audience.

Work at home Opportunities for the Disabled
People with disabilities often feel they are useless because they have limitations. They may no longer be able to work outside of the home. However, that doesn't mean they can't work. There are work at home opportunities for the disabled; in fact, working from home may be the perfect way for those with disabilities to contribute to their families' budgets.
Getting To Your Personal and Professional Best
"Living your best personal and professional life" is a goal means different things to different people. On your journey to "living your best," you have a powerful choice of three levels of commitment and engagement in your personal and professional life.

The Art of Being Present: How to Manifest In The Moment
Many people think that they're living in the present moment, but if you really stop to think...are they? Are you? What can you do to make sure that you're present? Here are some simple tips to get you in the moment...and get you living better because of it!
Finding Happiness by living in the present
Learning how to live in the present is a major key to finding happiness. Living in the past will be filled with regret. Living in the future usually means living in fear. Only in the present will we be content
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This is a shout out to all the disabled vets. This article gives important tips for posittive interactions with individuals with mobiity impairments. This is the first of a series of articles on successfully interacting with people with disabilities
The Power of Decision
Patrick Hughes was born blind and crippled, but when someone asks about his disabilities he says, "What disabilities? I'd call them abilities." Instead of focusing his life on areas in which he is disadvantaged, he has exerted all his effort into his talents and passions. He is an amazing pianist! It all started with Patrick making a decision to focus on what he does well. What can we learn from people like Patrick? What do successful people have in common?
Shout Out to the Disabled - Overcoming Ableism
What can one say about a category of people labled disabled. This category includes everyone from an elderly man experiencing chronic depression since the death of his wife, to a young blind woman, to a severely mentally retarded child, to a teenager with a mild learning disability, to a mother in a wheelchair, to a businessman with a disease that is progressively decreasing the physical functioning of his body? How can those of us who are currently able-bodied know how to treat people with disabilities?

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