Update: Backpack Nation
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.26.03 | 9:28 PM ET
Travel author Brad Newsham, who launched the organization Backpack Nation in the wake of September 11, 2001 to help spread prosperity and goodwill around the globe, announced Thursday that his first ambassador has selected a group to receive the organization’s first $10,000 donation. The money will go to Microfund for Women, which makes loans to female entrepreneurs in Palestinian refugee camps near Ahman, Jordan. When we last wrote about Newsham’s plan on this blog, at least one reader worried that the money could be squandered on people unprepared for such a windfall. But it appears that Newsham has done some careful vetting. He said that Microfund for Women has earned praise from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Treasury Department. He writes on Backpack Nation’s Web site: “I am working to try to get a reporter to visit the camps soon and write about how they look, sound, smell, and feel—and also to write about the lives of some of the specific people to whom our money will be delivered, so that we can get a sense of the human impact of this venture of ours.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
