If one thousand families, households or groups did the ‘challenge’ once a year, $100,000 could be raised. This is enough to fund loans for 1,000 micro-entrepreneurs, lifting their families permanently out of poverty, and providing employment for many more. If the challenge was taken up more than once a year, with an ever-widening circle of participating units, many more thousands of our sisters and brothers among the poor could be given a helping hand.

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