Summary Of Microfinance In Half The Sky

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In Chapter 11, microfinance is discussed, it is empowering women, in areas struck by poverty. Microfinance is allowing women to borrow lesser amounts of money and by paying it back bi-weekly it is keeping them coming back and when they pay off their first loan they are allowed to borrow more, larger loans. Women are taking back the power. As we see in Saima’s story below, her husband no longer beats her and she calls the shots and now her husband works for her.
In Half the Sky, Saima tells her story of how her husband was more than $3,000 in debt and would regularly beat her, her brother-in-law would beat her as well. She had only bore girls and many said that her husband should take another wife that could bear him sons.
Saima borrowed $65

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