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Cooperative micro-credit schemes are transforming life for poor women in Africa

Published October 13, 2004

For 50 Kenyan women without the financial means to stop the wearying cycle of poverty, a charitable Swede living among them presented a chance to break the circle.

In November 1999, the group members came to Ingrid Munro, each with her own entrepreneurial aspiration. They had dreams of a productive life as small agricultural producers, but needed tables to sell their goods in the market; or as seamstresses,...

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