Please scroll down to see updates. We shall put up a separate communication channel as the project matures. In the meantime, please stay updated by visiting this page (and scrolling down) and via the BIC Yahoo group & SMS Updates. thanking you, musa The 1st meeting with Target Group for Support the Poor Invest Date: Sunday, 10 July. Time: 2.30 to 6.30 pm. Venue: St. Alphonsus High School,No. 1, Davis Road, (Off Tannery Road) Near Clarence School / ICICI Bank Richards Park.Bangalore - 560084. DIRECTIONS: (If you prefer Come to BIC Office then proceed as below ...) Come to Haji Ismail Sait (Fraser Town) Mosque on Mosque Road, Fraser Town. Proceed towards Clarence School - you will go over the railway tracks. Just after you go over the tracks, you will see Clarence School. Take a LEFT Turn here. Proceed 200m down and take the FIRST RIGHT. Proceed till you get the THIRD LEFT. Come down about 200m and you will see Alphonsus School on the right. We are in a Ground Floor classroom which you will see right in front of you when you enter the gate. Proposed Agenda: 2.30 to 5.30 pm: Interact with the Target Group (we are expect 30+ folks). Put the idea across, listen to their views. 6 to 7 pm: A meeting with Volunteers to discuss their experience of the meeting and chalk out the next set of actions. Who should attend? 1. Volunteers & those interested in the Micro Investing project. 2. If you would like to bring your maids / drivers / anyone for this meet, please do do. If you are coming or are bringing some folks from the Target Group you need to Register Here to help us organise for the numbers of folks that will be coming. If you have any questions, please call 93419 67573 or email info@bangaloreinvestorsclub.com Looking forward to your participation and support. Watch out for updates. Regards, musa Hi All, Over the last few months, I have been speaking to some of you about how we could get together to support the lower economic strata of society to get into the financial mainstream. I am talking about our maid servants, drivers, autorickshaw drivers, road sweepers, vegetable vendors, drivers, peons, office assistants etc ... How can we get them into the financial mainstream? I am sure many of us would have heard of stories of their exploitation by various folks (money-lenders, petty bank runners, etc). Many such folks don't even have a bank account (leave aside a PAN Number, etc). However all these folks are much more in need of that extra hundred rupees than you and I are. AND ... there are MANY MANY schemes (Post Office Schemes, Corporate and Bank Deposits, Micro SIPs, Direct Equity, Gold & Equity ETFs, etc) that these folks can benefit from but are mostly unaware of them. I can also add that after having one very enlightening session with a small group of such folks, I can vouch that they are very enthusiastic about the same! Can we come together to take on a Community Project to reach out to such folks in our house holds, places of work to participate in India's growth story? Just to clarify, I am NOT for telling them what to do and where to invest, rather I am interested in creating a resource pool where we can educate such folks as to what their options are and support them in implementing the choice THEY MAKE. This is NOT about charity BUT IT IS about you contributing your time, effort and energy to MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE by reaching out to 5-10 such folks in your life, educate them and guide them to do the right thing for them and their families. If you are called by this and would like to participate in, what I like to call, democratisation of wealth, then please do make it convenient to attend a brain storming session as below. Venue: Bangalore Investors Club. 45 Netaji Road, Fraser Town, Bangalore - 560 005. Date: Saturday, 25 June. Time: 2.30 to 5.30 pm. Topic: Just bounce ideas and see what we can come up with the make this as large a movement as possible. Ideally, this would have been a much better mail with a lot more lead time but you know what, I just got fed up of waiting for the perfect moment and decided to go for it! So please treat this as a personal invitation do come and enrich the idea with your ideas! Kindly take a few minutes to Register Here so that we know who are interested and we can create a separate communication channel for this. Regards, musa Minutes of the First Micro Investing meet. On Sat, 25 June, 3 to 5.30 pm at the BIC. Attendees:
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