This course will inform, engage, and prepare participants who are considering the feasibility and benefits of adding health to microfinance. The training will provide experience-based examples, lessons learned, cost information, and discussion about addressing the link between poverty and ill health without taking MFIs off-track or incurring undue expenses. This PPT: client testimonies

1. 3/29/2016 1
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With the conditions where life is expensive
and painful trying to have enough to eat,
we have to invest our small incomes in
health and this is even more punishment.
We don’t have a great way to get to the
hospital, but if someone can give us ideas
on how to prevent disease, we will apply
these tips and save our children and
ourselves.”
—PADME client, when asked her
opinion on the health education

2. 3/29/2016 2
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“When you go to the market in the morning, you
never know what will happen. But when you have
the health savings and can get a health loan, you
have the security of knowing that if you have a
problem, you will be protected.”
—RCPB client
“Neither health savings nor health loans have
created extra work for staff. The health savings
accounts do not present more challenges or
difficulties than any other financial products at
RCPB.”

3. 3/29/2016 3
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“I joined CARD because it has many
benefits; my favorite benefits are the
health benefits.”
—Roselyn, CARD client
“Had I not received this health loan from
Bandhan, I would have lost both my sons
as well as my asset ... Bandhan brought
back light in my family and I am obliged
to spread this message of my immense
benefit….”
—Bandhan client