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Women: a WISE investment

Step by step, people like Sangita Thami, a Nepal earthquake survivor, are learning new skills they can use to improve their lives.

In Guatemala, Ana Dominga Cuc Baquin, whose formal schooling endedin third grade, embraced the financial literacy classes we offered and is now working hard to grow her business with the help of an Oxfam-backed bank loan. And here, in the US, poultry workers are standing up and speaking out about the daily injustices they endure processing some of the 8.5 billion chickens we consume each year.

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