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What role does Oikocredit play in disaster relief efforts?

Our role lies predominately in the re-building of communities and fostering development. That is where our expertise lies and where we are most useful. Oikocredit's expertise lies in financing organizations, cooperatives and small and medium sized businesses through loans, investments and credit lines.

When natural disasters strike and in emergency situations, we encourage our members to donate to well-reputed relief organizations who are equipped to provide and direct humanitarian aid to those who need it in emergency situations, but we do not co-ordinate these types of donations ourselves. Our value lies in contributing at the rebuilding and recovery stage - when media attention may have faded but there is still a lot of work to do.

This is the stage where vulnerable groups need new opportunities. Oikocredit will continue its mission of providing access to financial services to the poor, and daring to go - and stay - where others do not.

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