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Shout Out on Microfinance



I wanted to give a shout out to my awesome buddy, Anna Somos Krishnan at SKS Microfinance. She is still in Hyderabad, tending the vines out there. The stories in the link below are about three of the 1.3 million clients SKS has in Andhra Pradesh. Medak, where these stories take place, is a direct, one-hour drive north of our slum. Some parents of students at the Rainbow School are from Medak, others are from Maboobnagar. These people are true economic refugees.

SKS is helping to keep others out of the slum. These stories are about people in rural villages that created small, sustainable industries thanks to microlending.

Click here for the SKS Microfinance Client Stories.

SKS is funded, in part, by UNITUS which is back here in California. Big props to UNITUS and SKS and Anna.

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