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WIL-Funded
VILLAGE BANKS
Friendship Bridge and Las Campesinas Village Bank
Guatemala
2010
Friendship Bridge works primarily with indigenous Guatemalan women in rural areas where the rate of poverty in Guatemala is the highest. While illiteracy and poverty rates are staggering in these regions, the women we work with are determined to create a change.
Visited by WIL group
Pro Mujer Nicagarua- "Virgen Maria" village bank.
Chinandega, Nicaragua
2009
Nicaragua suffers from the highest cervical cancer mortality rate of any country in the Americas. Attending to this overwhelming public health concern, Pro Mujer has provided nearly 22,500 cervical cancer screenings in the last two years.
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