Adie is organizing the second edition of Microcredit Week from March 28 to April 1. This event provides an opportunity for the association to better inform about microcredit, which enables the unemployed and RMI (Minimum Insertion Income) recipients to create their own jobs. This year, Microcredit Week will start in troubled neighborhoods.
Adie is launching the “Microcredit Week: Create Your Job” from March 28 to April 1. On the first two days, Tuesday, March 28, and Wednesday, March 29, information forums on microcredit will be set up in public places in disadvantaged neighborhoods. On the following three days, Thursday, March 30, Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, the forums will welcome visitors in about fifty public locations: city hall squares, pedestrian streets, subways, buses, shopping centers, and markets. Besides providing information about microcredit and Adie, the forums will showcase the testimonials of micro-entrepreneurs financed by Adie. In Nice, you can attend two forums:
– March 30 from 9 am to 1 pm: Marché des Moulins
– March 31 from 9 am to 1 pm: Marché de l’Ariane
Adie finances more than 6,000 micro-enterprises each year created by people facing difficulties. The sustainability rate of these businesses is on par with the national average. 16% of the micro-entrepreneurs financed by Adie barely know how to read, write, or count. They succeed as well as the 23% who have attended university. In France, out of the 200,000 companies created each year, a third are founded by unemployed individuals.
Adie’s efforts are supported by banks, local governments, the state, the European Social Fund, and the private sector. The Microcredit Week will help to strengthen this joint action and highlight support for the unemployed.
In April 2005, during the first edition, 50,000 people sought information on microcredit, and nearly 7,000 expressed their intention to Adie to start a micro-enterprise. The 2006 Microcredit Week will continue to tap into this job market potential.
Adie is a non-profit organization recognized as serving the public interest, assisting those excluded from the job market and traditional banking systems in creating their own jobs. It was founded in 1989 by Maria Nowak, adapting the microcredit principle to France. It targets all those who are unemployed or on RMI. Since its inception, Adie has financed more than 30,000 businesses, creating 36,000 jobs.
Microcredit Week website: [Microcredit Week Website](https://www.semaine-microcredit.org/)
Adie’s website: [Adie Website](https://www.adie.org/)
Adie in Nice:
11, avenue Jean Médecin – 06000 Nice
Tel: 04 93 82 02 10
