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Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 10, 2011

FINCA International, a charitable microfinance organization, is launching a new video public service announcement (PSA) campaign for FINCA’s online donation community, Lend A Hand, which features spokeswomen Academy Award® winner Natalie Portman, and leading Hollywood actress Zoe Saldana. The PSA campaign is in support of women, worldwide, who are working to create a better future for their families. The PSA videos go live June 10.

Natalie Portman Video Link: http://youtu.be/i396YZD15_M
Zoe Saldana Video Link: http://youtu.be/gOLu13kCWsY

“We’re excited to begin a new PSA Campaign aimed at galvanizing the public’s support for FINCA’s efforts to provide hardworking, impoverished women around the globe with the financial tools they need to start and build small businesses that can help move their families out of extreme poverty,” said FINCA President and CEO Rupert Scofield. “As our Ambassador of Hope, Natalie has worked tirelessly throughout the years on our behalf to engage others in our mission, and we’re thrilled that Zoe is joining her as another dedicated advocate for our cause.”

Lend A Hand (http://www.lendahand.finca.org) is a virtual community managed by FINCA that invites the public to sponsor life-changing, small loans for low-income entrepreneurs struggling to escape poverty. Donations through Lend A Hand allow FINCA to provide small loans to FINCA borrowers, mostly women, looking to receive a hand up, not a handout. These borrowers invest their loans into their businesses so they can increase profitability, and improve their families’ living standards and future prospects. This added income makes it possible for borrowers to buy better food for their children, make improvements to their homes and, most important, pay fees for children to attend school, ensuring a better chance for a life free from poverty. Additional loans keep these small businesses going and growing, and often create jobs for other family members and neighbors. Sponsorship of a Lend A Hand borrower replenishes FINCA’s pool of loan capital, enabling its programs in 21 countries across the globe to continue providing additional loans to others in need.

“I’m so proud to serve with FINCA in helping impoverished women become self-sustaining,” said Ambassador of Hope, Natalie Portman. “There is no better gift than giving women living in poverty the ability to provide for themselves and their families. When people donate to FINCA’s Lend A Hand campaign, they are allowing a mother to have peace of mind that her children are fed, safe, and being given a chance at a better life.”

“There are so many women in the world who are less fortunate, and struggling to provide for their families,” said Zoe Saldana. “FINCA is working tirelessly to help give these women a hand up, so that they are able to take care of their families and break free of poverty. Through this campaign, we hope to educate people about Lend A Hand, and show how a small loan can change the lives of so many women living in poverty—and better the lives of their children.”

As the organization’s Ambassador of Hope, Natalie Portman has demonstrated a passion and commitment to FINCA’s mission for nearly a decade, devoting her efforts toward mobilizing the next generation in the fight against poverty. Her involvement has led her to visit multiple countries around the globe where she has witnessed, first hand, the positive effects of microfinance. Inspired by Portman’s extraordinary commitment to the organization’s efforts, Zoe Saldana joined the Lend A Hand campaign after observing the tragic destruction following the massive Haiti earthquake in 2010.

ABOUT FINCA INTERNATIONAL
FINCA is a leading international micro-finance organization that provides financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. For more than 25 years, FINCA has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing community-based credit and savings opportunities. Currently, FINCA operates with a distinctive, integrated business model that accepts donations and investment dollars, an approach that leverages available capital and promotes greater transparency, sustainability and higher standards of business practices. This has allowed FINCA to achieve balanced financial and social performance unmatched in the industry while opening the path to socio-economic development for the lowest-income citizens of the world. Based in Washington DC, with local operations across 21 countries serving more than 800,000 clients, FINCA’s outreach is among the broadest and most comprehensive of today’s microfinance networks. For more information, please visit http://www.FINCA.org.

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7 reasons to get hook on Capadocia

Article by Natalia Ramirez

Capadocia is an HBO series comparable with the quality and the high production level of a series produced in United States. The storyline is dramatic and full of raw emotion.

Capadocia is about the lives of 6 female prisoners, who all came to jail for separate reasons, and how they will have to survive one way or another. It shows how every woman in the prison fights for her own interest.

The prisoners live a miserable life, full of bitterness and hardships simply because they have no other choice. Besides struggling with the reality they find themselves in, they also struggle with the guilt of the crimes they have committed.

The series has a first rate cast, with very realistic scenery and a script that develops the plot with admirable realism. The story is fabulous, especially the ongoing question about personal morals and values.

7. A new proposal of Mexican series: It doesn’t look like the usual Mexican “telenovela”, packed with scantily clad girls, dashing macho men and unceasing melodrama. Capadocia is much more than that, because its plot is based in real events that reveal the corruption problems in Mexico and its prisons.

6. The realism of the story: It’s crude, graphic and violent, but that kind of realism is what makes this such an interesting show. There’s no denying that the show conveys the tension and gloominess of prison viscerally. The final episode makes perfectly clear that Capadocia will consume the lives of everyone (not just the prisoners) who touches it. It’s another tribute to Capadocia’s power that it can have such an unsettling effect on its viewers.

5. Rhythm of the story: The series takes place in a modern prison that mixes political interests with corruption and power struggles. Although it touches Latin American television themes that are already overplayed (such as drug trafficking), the series has the HBO high production standards, making it dark, credible, and easy to follow.

4. A genuine script: The writers also based some of the story on real-life events and characters, drawing most of the inspiration from Mexico City’s infamous Santa Marta women’s prison. The result is a series that is as grim, bloody and chaotic as actual Latin American prisons can be.

3. Lorena’s character: Her acting is excellent. Ana De La Reguera has a very complex role as a placid suburban housewife who gradually changes into a hardened drug-addicted killer. Her talent is able to overcome even some of the more contrived writing lapses.

2. The series analyzes current political issues: Capadocia also made an analysis of the degeneration that happens in the prisons whose victims are the women. Although prison should be a place where criminals learn how to adapt to the normal world and get recover from past errors; it is a corrupt and hostile environment.

1. The drama of the prisoners: In jail, the women learn to defend their own individual space, often broken by the other prisoners or even the official authorities. At the prison you have to assume that human rights are constantly violated, if only for the fact of being convicted.

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