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Q. How does Fifty Bucks turn into a life-saving business?

A. Through FINCA aka villagebanking.org.

FINCA makes micro-loans to the worlds poorest women, often mothers, to help them start businesses. The small businesses and home businesses that these micro-loans help start, allow these families to work themselves out of poverty.

Better than 97% of the loans are repaid in full, an amazing detail when I consider the rate of foreclosure in America. [Read more →]

That is all.

Oh, and my self-induced hiatus should be over tomorrow.