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Haiti Village Bank

FINCA

CANADA MARGARETTE

first became a FINCA Haiti client in 2006, because she wanted to give her three children a better life. Her big dream was for her children to go to school so they could have a better future. Back then, Margarette

Margarette at her Market shop in Haiti

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Launches ‘Text to Give’ Campaign to Help Low-Income Female Entrepreneurs Survive the Pandemic. supported her children with a small business from her house in Aquin, selling meat as well as some hardware items. But this business never made her much money, and she wanted to earn more to pay for school fees. When

Margarette heard about FINCA in a meeting at her church, she knew it could be her chance. She got together with some neighbors, and they formed the Fanm Aksyon (Women of Action) FINCA Village Banking group.


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