Suzanne Skees writes about our project, Financing Healthier Lives, in the Huffington Post

February 17, 2012

Suzanne Skees, director of the Skees Family Foundation and writer, is a longtime supporter of Freedom from Hunger (FFH), a strategic partner of the Microcredit Summit Campaign in a new alliance to benefit 3.7 million of the world’s poor by combining microfinance and health. Ms. Skees is currently in India visiting FFH programs and wrote the following article on the Huffington Post. 

$2 A Year Can Keep Mothers And Their Families Healthy In The Developing World

Laily Begum felt lucky to receive a $75 microloan for a sewing machine to launch her tailoring business. With the machine, she could produce a salwar kameez (tunic and pants) in just 2.5 hours. She found a corner in her one-room brick house in a village near Kolkata, India, that she shared with her husband and five children, and set to work, earning almost $1 for each outfit. Her husband, initially skeptical about Laily's loan, watched her business grow to include four more machines, five employees -- including her sons -- and a second room added to their house.

To read the rest of the article, go to the Huffington Post: Global Motherhood.