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Savings groups tap into the vast, underutilized potential of smart people to solve their own problems.

 

Learn more about photos below in Jeffrey Ashe’s book about microfinance saving groups.

 

Grassroot Microfinance in Mali

Eight years later, nearly 450,000 women had joined Saving for Change groups in Mali, in addition to the 143,000 villagers in Mali who had joined similar projects sponsored by CARE, the 40,000 who were part of Plan International projects, and the 30,000 who had joined groups trained by CRS. By early 2014, a total of 695,589 savings group members were trained in Mali among the four organizations.

—Excerpt from In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development by Jeffrey Ashe

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