Geovana's Story

"Credit with Education has helped me to value myself as a woman, to raise my children, and to keep on going with my business."- Geovana, Bolivia

This is the voice of hope, the hope that women experience when they are inspired and motivated by Freedom from Hunger's Credit with Education program.

Geovana had known nothing but poverty her entire life. Even after she married, there was never enough to meet her family’s basic needs and she didn’t expect it would ever change.

But after her mother-in-law took out a loan through Credit with Education, Geovana began to see that there was another way!

She joined the local Credit with Education association. And with her own loan, Geovana started a business making and selling tortas, empanadas, and gallititas.

The work was not easy, and she feared she might fail. "It was the first time I started a business," she remembers, "and I was . . . afraid that I wouldn't be able to pay back the loan."

But we have faith in women like Geovana. We have seen, thousands of times, that if these brave women are given a chance, they seize the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families.

And we offer so much more than a financial investment. Women also participate in learning sessions on topics as varied as business practices, family planning, and safe hygiene.

And there's more. As the women work together, encouraging each other, offering moral support and friendship, they discover they have the collective courage to overcome obstacles and build a more hopeful future.

Does our program work? Yes!

We have had a life-changing impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of women--each of whom has used our program to lift herself out of poverty and improve life for her family.

For Geovana - who made the most of her small loan - success has meant earning enough money to feed her children and send them to school so they have a chance for a promising future.

That is what your generosity can do--deliver help, hope and resources directly into the hands and minds of mothers determined to transform their lives.

Please make a tax-deductible donation to Freedom from Hunger!

Show the countless women who still endure life on the margin of survival that you believe in their success. Send a message of hope to the millions seeking to escape from poverty's stranglehold.

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