Latina Lista: Microlending Program Gives Hope to Poverty-Stricken Mexicans in Chiapas

Posted on: August 23rd, 2006
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“Yet la pobreza (the poor), like everywhere, if given the chance, can do some awesome things to help themselves, their families and their local economies.

That was the thinking behind the initiative The Chiapas Project.

A group of successful Dallas, Texas women traveled to Chiapas to see that amid all the poverty that surrounded the women in this part of Mexico, they still had the ganas (desire) to make something of themselves.”

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