#7 Medha Wilson: Giving hope not handouts to female entrepreneurs in Southern Africa

In 2012, Mrs Mkonde borrowed £13 from the MicroLoan Foundation to expand her business (a single tomato stall) to help feed her eight children and pay for their education. She received training and business skills. Today she is an employer with a maize mill and ambitions to fulfil larger orders through warehousing and transportation.This is one example of over 450,000 female borrowers who have been empowered to reach a family base of 2.3 million people. I sat down to talk to the MicroLoan Foundation's CEO, Medha Wilson, to learn more about microfinance, its scalability and some of its challenges as well as the broader causes of poverty. There is much grandstanding in the West about female empowerment but nowhere have I seen more impact than from the efforts of organisations like the MicroLoan Foundation. I learned a lot from this conversation and hope you enjoy it as much as I did. You can learn more here: https://www.microloanfoundation.org.uk/This podcast was produced by Matt Cooper with music composed by Loverman.