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WCCN provides micro-loans to support poor in Latin America


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Working Capital for Community Needs, or WCCN, this year celebrates 30 years of coordinating micro-loans in order to improve the lives of poor in Latin America. Originating to support the Wisconsin-Nicaragua Sister-State program in 1984, it was transformed in 1991 into what is now a $14 million funding program to financial co-ops in Central America, with 63% of its lending going to assisting women without access to credit. Executive Director Will Harris talks about some of their work.
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