By Maureen Cavanaugh and Pauline Lucas
Local San Diego women are providing little loans that add up to big change in impoverished countries. WomensTrust and Women’s Empowerment International have provided microloans ranging from $55 to $5000 to help women in poorer countries start their own businesses.
They have helped women in Ghana, Honduras, Mexico and refugees in San Diego. Their goal is to help these women start sustainable businesses and begin to work their way out of poverty.
Women who have struggled to make $2 a day are using these loans, along with their skills, to start businesses from baking to quilting. We will talk to Dana Dakin, who is the founder of WomensTrust, and to Winifred Cox, co-founder of Women’s Empowerment International. We will talk about the impact that their partnership has made and the lives they have changed.
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