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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania. SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Mpunda had struggled for 10 years working at a hotel, a brewery, and a ruby mine. Amazingly, Calzado herself emigrated to the U.S.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. I wrote about the power of the word, spoken or written, and how it could potentially aid in development and education in these developing countries.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. I wrote about the power of the word, spoken or written, and how it could potentially aid in development and education in these developing countries.