Transforming Lives $40 at a Time, Women + Microfinance: Upending the Status Quo - Hardcover

Dana Elizabeth Whitaker

9780615135335: Transforming Lives $40 at a Time, Women + Microfinance: Upending the Status Quo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0615135331 ISBN 13: 9780615135335

Publisher: Dana E. Whitaker, Opening Eyes, 2007

Transforming Lives $40 at a Time is a book filled with vivid color photographs and stories (based on interviews) bringing readers face-to-face and heart-to-heart with some of the world's poorest women (and a few men) from 13 countries on five continents who, through relentless hard work and microfinance, are pulling their families and entire communities out of poverty's dehumanizing grip. The economic, social and personal changes are monumental.

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About the Author:

Dana E. Whitaker has traveled the globe for years, both for educational purposes and for pleasure. When she learned about the power of microfinance, she had to get involved. For three years she traveled the world's urban centers and rural outposts meeting, interviewing and photographing microentrepreneurs for Transforming Lives $40 at a Time. She serves on the East Bay Advisory Board of Women's Initiative for Self Employment, an MFI in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a member of Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM) Northern California. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and son.

Review:

The power and potential of microfinance is best understood by those who have spent time with poor and formerly poor women who are using microfinance to break the generational cycle of poverty. The next best thing to meeting these women is to read Dana Whitaker's book. It inspires and informs, appealing to the heart and mind as it opens up both. --Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation

Transforming Lives will inspire you with engaging stories of microborrowers in 13 countries who, to realize their dreams, launched businesses as diverse as selling pigs and sculpting peach pit toys. The book is illustrated with Dana Whitaker s fresh, colorful photographs, and packed with data, reading lists, and resources about microfinance. I promise, it will excite you about getting involved. --Paola Gianturco, Author of Celebrating Women and In Her Hands

Economic development jargon and all the data pale in comparison with the compelling human stories Dana Whitaker has written. In this era of cynicism about American foreign aid and fear of terrorism, Americans need to hear this hopeful message. --Jonathan C. Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, MicroCredit Enterprises, LLC

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