Welcome to our second issue of Countdown 2005, the quarterly newsletter of the Microcredit Summit Campaign. This issue features an interview with Brian Atwood on USAID's Microenterprise Initiative; a touching speech by Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Co-Chair of the Microcredit Summit Council of Practitioners; a lesson in best practice on creating sustainable institutions; a discussion with Freedom from Hunger affiliates on their Institutional Action Plan; and the inspiring story of Lola Tasya in The Philippines, whose small loan helped her kerosene lamp business.

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Countdown 2005 is available in English, French, and Spanish. The French and Spanish versions will be coming to this site soon.