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Lakshmi Rao ✓

Self-Help Group federation leader, 11 years in the field · @lakshmi-rao

Lakshmi leads a federation of 240 women's self-help groups across rural Telangana. She started as a member who could not sign her own name and now trains other women to run savings groups and small businesses.

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How a Village Savings Group Turned ₹20 a Week Into 40 New Businesses

Nobody in our group had a bank account when we started. Six years later we have funded forty enterprises. Here is exactly how it worked.

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