Microfinance video

This is Sandra. Sandra wants to make her own money but she can’t catch a break. Day after day she does whatever it takes to keep her family afloat. Sandra finds tons of causes that want to help her, like this one it gives scarves to people, but wearing a scarf won’t feed Sandra’s family tomorrow. Sandra doesn’t want a handout she wants to be able to make her own money. What Sandra could use is a handup! Turns out it’s Sandra’s lucky day. She learns about microfinance, a type of loan that empowers women out of poverty and into business. This is the break Sandra has been looking for. She borrows just enough money to buy the supplies to plant a garden and begins to grow. After a few months Sandra’s oasis is jamming. She can now afford to send her daughter to school. For the first time in her life Sandra is making her own money. She pays her first loan back and takes out a second slightly larger loan. This time she buys the materials to build a produce stand. She hustles everyday to turn her garden into a business, she even hires a neighbor to work with her. Thanks to microfinance Sandra is running her own business and her entire community benefits from it. Microfinance isn’t charity, it’s a domino effect that allows millions of people from far away and right here in the U.S. to create something where there was nothing. This is Zoe, she gets the same loan Sandra once had so she can run her own business too. Thanks to microfinance women everywhere like Sandra can get an access to power so they can live like bosses they are.