Transforming Lives $40 at a Time

Dana Whitaker spent 3 years traveling the world meeting and collecting stories about women microentrepreneurs. She wrote a book about it Transforming Lives $40 at a Time, Women + Microfinance: Upending the Status Quo, which was published in 2007.



from Amazon:

The book is filled with vivid color photographs and stories (based on interviews) bringing readers face-to-face and heart-to-heart with some of the world's poorest women (and a few men) from 13 countries on five continents who, through relentless hard work and microfinance, are pulling their families and entire communities out of poverty's dehumanizing grip.

I need to go check it out ... Book Passages at the Ferry Building carries it. I'll be there during my lunch break next week.

Her suggested reading list looks good, too.