Unlocking opportunities with small loans

In Bangladesh, poverty is an ancient cycle...Grameen Bank, led by Dr. Mohammed Yunus, has developed a way to draw on people's innate drive to dignity, independence, ambition and entrpreneurship to break the poverty cycle.

Through loans as small as $20 provided to individual women for small crafts, service and agricultural businesses, people gain not only their own income, but the self-respect needed to control their own destinies in many different ways.