Every mother is a working mother, or so the old adage goes.
Maria Yolanda stood out among the brightly-costumed women crowded into a World Vision office in San Reymundo, a small village about 26 miles from the capital, Guatemala City. She is 20, the age of my daughter Sarah. But a certain maturity belied her youthfulness as she tended her two small children, one tugging at her skirt, one tied upon her back. The women had come to share with us how they had used the money loaned to them by World Vision. In microenterprise development programs across Latin America, World Vision distributes loans to groups of people who lack access to financial credit.