BBC News article highlighting Sumitra, a client of Friends of Women's World Banking India (FWWB). Read the full article.

Leaders from South Asian microfinance institutions (MFIs) recently took part in a week-long workshop in Sri Lanka in an attempt to ensure the rapidly growing sector is as well run as possible. Read full article at BBC News

This BBC News article, based on an interview with WWB's President, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, appeared on August 21, 2007. Read the BBC News Web Site article online.

By Clare Davidson Business reporter, BBC News It all started when Joyce Wafukho, then in her early 30s, spotted a gap in the market in her village in Kenya. "There was no hardware store," explains Mary Ellen Iskenderian, who first visited Ms Wafukho after becoming head of the non-profit organisation Women's World Banking in September 2006. "After borrowing from family members and scraping some savings together, she started selling nails and screws from a kiosk." She also sold tomatoes, "not your standard DIY stock," laughs Ms Iskenderian.

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