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Micro-financing empowers women and changes lives in Togo
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UNICEF correspondent Sarah Crowe reports on how small loans are transforming the lives of women in Togo.
You're watching UNICEF television.
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Bang on the money.
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This is anything but a begging bowl.
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Pittance for a bank, but for these Togolese women,
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each tiny contribution to the cash flow helps.
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It's recorded for the group,
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and the money's kept under lock and key for when they need it most.
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Every cent in this microcredit scheme
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keeps the women's families on their feet
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and also shakes up this male-dominated rural society.
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Mainly, the scheme helps the women, like this widow,
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grow their small businesses without waiting to make a profit first.
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What's different now with the microcredit
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is that I can buy the raw products immediately,
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so I do more business quicker.
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Her daughter is back at school now.
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Thanks to the microcredit project,
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more and more of the poorest children are going to school
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since their mothers can now pay the school fees.
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The women have built a new mill with the profits from their businesses,
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and it's helped speed up the time they spend
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getting the finest grain out of the cassava,
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the staple diet of much of West Africa,
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and making sure there's a constant supply of cooked grain
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to sell and to nourish their families.
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Francoise's husband is sickly and not able to work.
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The rub-off effect of the project
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has meant the beginnings of real power for her and other women.
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Today, people who have economic power have the power,
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or now in the village, women have the power,
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and they have economic power.
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Francoise has even managed to send her son to university
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because of the project.
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That's made her proud.
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I'm really happy because it has given me the respect of the whole village.
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It's by no means perfect, but it has gone a long way
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to ease a heavy burden from these women
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and give them the chance to make choices in their lives.
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This is Sarah Crowe in Togo, reporting for UNICEF Television.
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Unite for Children.
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- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- UNICEF
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 287
- Fecha:
- 29 de mayo de 2007 - 14:47
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- UNICEF (United Nations International Chidren's Emergency Fund)
- Duración:
- 02′ 41″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
- Resolución:
- 320x240 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 16.22 MBytes
