The investment that you're talking about was actually in Paraguay. It was a dairy, so your memory on that is great. It speaks to the history of MEDA. MEDA started 65 years ago as an investment fund. It was an investment fund started by about 10 Mennonite businessmen—they were all men at that time—who thought that development should be done in a different way. They didn't really call it development at that time. They just wanted to help in South America. They all invested their own money into a pool. That pool was used to invest in a number of businesses in Latin America. These members actually went down and mentored. They gave advice. They gave their own money. They did it all from an investment perspective. This is the history of MEDA.
I think what you're referring to there is that those original 1956 dollars still exist in MEDA. We have them as part of a capital pool that we continue to use to this day. I want to quickly make the point that when the Canadian public asks why we should underwrite the investment of, for instance, private entrepreneurs in these areas, part of the answer to that is the fact that this money stays around. It doesn't get spent. It's used very productively, and then it's returned. It can be used again. I think that's very powerful.
How do we decide on how long? I think that's very case specific. It's contextual. We invest in investment funds for very long periods of time because the investment fund lasts for 15 years, for instance. It's a fixed-term investment fund. However, we also invest in banks and microfinance institutions with short-term capital for one year to 18 months. It's a very contextual question. It depends on the issue that we're trying to deal with.