Home builders are providing a hand up, not a hand out to the working poor in 17 countries around the world through loans as small as $55.   José Luis Rincón is a wheelbarrow manufacturer who lives in the Dominican Republic (DR).  He is married and has 2...

Home Builders from Across the Nation Investing in the Dreams of the Poor.   Mama Flores always dreamed of opening her own salon in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but as she struggled to meet her family’s most basic needs, anything more seemed out of reach. All...

  Before receiving his first micro-loan from Hope International, Musadidi, his wife and 6 children, lived in a small house in Lubumbashi .  Musadidi sold pharmaceutical items and medicines in his neighborhood to provide for his family.  He had so little capital...