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We need you to contact PBS to ask them to show "Small Fortunes" on October 27, 2005.

I am on the board of a non-profit organization called Unitus and Unitus helped produce a documentary, called "Small Fortunes" about Microcredit. PBS has agreed to show this beautiful and powerful film about this effective poverty-fighting tool on October 27, 2005 at 10:00pm EST.

However, local PBS stations have the choice to show it or not.

We need help to have as many people as possible contact their local PBS station and ask them to include this show in their programming. It is important to do this now, because programming schedules are getting set between now and the end of August for most stations.

Could you help us by contacting your local PBS station today to tell them about your interest in microfinance and ask them to broadcast Small Fortunes on October 27. Positive and personalized emails and phone calls are most effective; mass produced mailings are not.

To locate the PBS station in your area, please visit:

www.pbs.org/stationfinder

Microcredit is where small loans, usually between $50 and $200, are given to the very poor in the developing world. The poor use these loans to start a very small business that allows them to earn more money than they could through day-labor. The borrowers pay this money back and then qualify to receive a bigger loan. What is amazing is that over 95% of the poor pay these loans back. Then that money is available to loan out again to more borrowers.

To read more about microcredit, you can read my personal blog at:

http://unitus-microcredit.blogspot.com/