Income generation

Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are promoting income generation in Brazil:

"You can see the invisible!”

This is what Tête Romeiro was told when did the unexpected and paid off a bank loan, long before it was due, for the building that she built for the women’s sewing cooperative she founded in the early 1980s.

And it’s true. She was able to see what others could not: the potential for a successful high fashion business in a Brazilian shantytown.

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Seg, 22/06/2009 - 14:29

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