Wokai Adventures: An Exciting Announcement - Wokai's New York Launch Event!

An Exciting Announcement - Wokai's New York Launch Event!

Please join the New York Chapter of Wokai for our Launch celebration!

Click here for tickets: http://wokainyclaunch.eventbrite.com/

WHAT: A fundraising event celebrating the launch of Wokai’s peer-to- peer microfinance donation platform, featuring wine/beer open bar, hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction, and a presentation by Wokai Co-Founder and CEO, Casey Wilson

WHO: Over 200 socially-conscious young professionals

WHERE: BLVD - 199 Bowery (at Spring Street)

WHEN: Wednesday, May 27th from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

WHY: In China, approximately 200 million people live on less than $1 a day, and China’s income gap is one of the most severe among developing countries worldwide. Microfinance, commonly defined as providing loans to poor people to help them start small businesses, offers one of the best solutions to global poverty. Wokai is a 501c3 non-profit organization that enables Chinese people to lift themselves from poverty. Wokai is Chinese for "I start," demonstrating our commitment to helping the impoverished help themselves. Through our website, we connect contributors worldwide with entrepreneurs in rural China to help them start small businesses. For example, a seamstress might borrow money to buy a sewing machine. This business generates stable income, which gives the seamstress and her family access to healthcare, improved housing, or perhaps most importantly, education. By empowering people to take control of their own lives, microfinance differs from the cycle of dependency created by previous methods of poverty alleviation.

RESERVATIONS: http://wokainyclaunch.eventbrite.com/

As a portion of each ticket is tax deductible, please consider requesting a matching gift from your company so that Wokai can benefit twice from your generosity. Thank you!

For additional information about Wokai, please contact us at newyork@wokai.org

Looking forward to seeing you there!