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The World Relief Agency's Poverty Lending Program allows this woman to run a modest beauty parlor. The average loan amount is U.S.$42. (Photograph by Lois Raimondo)
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"Developing the lending program, tending to each nuance and each particular, requires constant communication," says World Relief Agency administrator Joel Copple, who supervises the program in Cambodia, while his brother, Steve, directs it in Vietnam. Using email to keep in touch with each other and with relief administrators worldwide, as well as to coordinate loan payments in the impoverished countries, the agency had provided over $300,000 in loans to more than 8,000 women by February 8, 1996 -- the day these pictures were taken.
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