Professor Muhammed Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank.
Women are the under-utilised key to accomplishing the goals of development.
When given appropriate help, Third World women improve their lives. Often women and their families have excellent ideas and good skills but have no access to money to start their business ventures. WomenAid believes the best support for the poor is to give them the opportunity to work for themselves. By providing seed capital and simple business training to entrepreneurial women, many families escape the abject poverty and are given the chance to realise their dreams. WomenAid International's 'Spirit of Enterprise' Programme supports income generating opportunities for poor women who have a good business idea.