WELCOME
Bank for the village - The way out of poverty in Togo
Kopeme means Village - Kopeme Bank is thus a bank for the villages - the rural areas in Togo
Vision of Kopeme Bank: the end of poverty.
The example: "I differentiate between poor and not poor. That is a great difference. The goal is not to make someone rich. The goal is that someone is no longer poor."
- Muhammad Yunus in an interview in "Der Spiegel" 2007
The Mission:
"We are fighting poverty, we are planting trees against climate change, we are making development possible"
- Jérôme Dodji FIAYIWO, founder of Kopeme Bank
NEWS
Milestones:
Participation in the Microcredit Summit, Nairobi April 2010
April 2010 - the Kopeme Bank has 5.091 borrowers!
April 2010 - The Kopeme Bank is invited to introduce the Programm Lumière pour tous - Light for all" a substitution of Petrollamps by Solarlights by microfinance on a workshop of the WorldFutureCouncil about renewable energies - held in Ghana, Accra in June 2010.
April 2010 - The Kopeme Bank paricipates in the Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, meeting again Professor Muhammad Yunus and creating a partnership with Dr. James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Bank, Kenya
April 2010 - Aktion Canchanabury is supporting the Caravane of Health.
March 2010 - Aktion Canchanabury gives out the bicycles for Kopeme Keke - the Bicycle Social Business of Kopeme.
February 2010 - Olympus Europe is supporting the Caravane of Health.
December 2009 - January 2010 - Foreign Private Investors find it smart to invest 200.000 Euro into the expansion of Kopeme Bank.
November 2009 - Attending the Vision Fair at the Vision Summit in Berlin -meeting with Professor Yunus and starting the search for Investors.
June 2009 - Opening of the first Branch in Rural Vogan.
May 2009 - Basis Training with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, studying the Social Businesses of Grameen and first personal meeting with Professor Yunus.
April 2009 - Decision to become professional, founding of Kopeme Bank, counting of people who are organized in traditional saving-and-credit-groups in one area of rural Togo.
January and February 2009 - Attending a Mangement-Training at Dialogue Social Enterprise in Hamburg, Germany, Meeting with CEO of WLP, testifying that Kopeme Bank is working efficient and can expand.
January 2009: The NGO-based Microcredit-Programm counts 212 borrowers.
Participation in the Vision Summit Berlin, November 2009
Since 2006 - Micro-credit-programm - starting as NGO - after 7 years of experience in self-financing and self-organizing.
HISTORY
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank from Bangladesh received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006 for a model of the fight against poverty, which worked milliones of times: the assignment of micro-credits to the poorest people in order to enable them to undertake own steps to leave their poverty.
In Togo, Jérôme Dodji FIAYIWO, the founder of the Kopeme Bank, founded already in 1999 a NGO, which is named PROMO.ORGA:H, promotion of Human Organizations to empower the poor people of Togo to undertake own steps out of poverty. In 2009, the Kopeme Bank was found."