Youth & Social Business of Health

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http://www.microcreditsummit.org/projects/healthintegration.html
Building Better Lives: Integrating Health Education with Microfinance

It has been acknowledged that the most important action that can be taken to improve global health is to empower women. The Microcredit Summit Campaign realizes that, despite the impressive impact of microfinance services alone on poverty, health, and empowerment, other services and strategies must be made available to create a web of support to help families lift themselves out of poverty. One such strategy is the integration of microfinance with health education.

Since 2000, the Microcredit Summit Campaign (MCS) has partnered with Freedom from Hunger, a leader in integrating microfinance with health education, to 1) demonstrate that integrating microfinance with health education results in enhanced improvements in the lives of microfinance clients and their families, 2) show that in-country trainers can build viable businesses teaching microfinance institutions how to integrate microfinance with health education, and 3) show that microfinance