New Businesses that want to Bloom

Last week I went out with our new village bank officer, Elizabeth to visit 2 groups of women that are in the processing of forming a village bank. I want to give you a little taste of what some of the possible future businesses forming new village banks look like:

One woman sells beauty products door to door out of a catalog.
Another woman milks cows and sells the milk, while also raising other small animals for sale at the market.
A third woman sells skewers of chicken feet in the afternoons in front of her house.

This week has been exciting, but not in a photo kinda way. I am setting up the new Hope House and my office, our central hub for educational and business activities for the loan recipients of village banks. The space is shared with a small group of nuns that have been doing amazing community service for years. And, it is beautiful. Computer room, sewing machine room, an oven...we are really fortunate to have created an alliance with the Sisters. This coming Monday my Director Maggie is coming to town for a week, so get ready for some jam-packed blogs! Til then.