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Featured Microentrepreneur

Saman, Microcredit Client of SED

Saman is a microcredit client who lives in Northeastern Thailand, with her husband and granddaughter. Her small home is surrounded with a large production of creating beautiful silk garments. A small fire burns beneath a pot of dye, tight spools of brilliantly dyed silk thread is neatly stacked, raw silk thread hangs loosely in a post, and a huge weaving loom takes up the majority of the outside space of her home.

Her husband sits on the ground carving bamboo pieces to create large spools for the already dyed silk thread. Saman is a silk weaver who has been involved in this trade since she was a young girl, easily seen through the quality of her work. However, weaving is not the entirety of her work. There are many steps between obtaining unrefined silk tread and weaving colorful silk pieces.

Saman, like all other silk weavers…
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Whole Planet Financial Snapshot

As of May 2013
# of Countries 57
Microcredit clients 282,404
Female clients 89%
Estimated people supported 1,660,000
Average first loan size in the developing world $172
Repayment rate 96%
Funds Committed $37,128,394

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Lisa

Lisa has been super successful in raising full loans for Whole Planet Foundation during our 2013 Annual Prosperity Campaign...

"Literally in the final hour yesterday, 2 of my friends who are regular WFM customers that I've been speaking with since our campaign began, shopped for their groceries and each donated a full loan...

Thank you Lisa!

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