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> Posted by Lisa Kuhn Fraioli, Vice President, Latin America, Freedom from Hunger

This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion.

A few weeks ago, I found myself in Loja, Ecuador leading a delegation of board members, supporters, and their families in a visit to some of Freedom from Hunger’s newest partners. We were visiting a client who was part of a special credit program for families with disabled children.

The first woman that we visited lived in a semi-rural area.  She had a tilapia farm, various fruit trees, herbs, and a whole variety of small-scale agricultural projects. Our delegation, which was very business-savvy, asked many insightful and detailed questions about her investments and returns on each of her activities.  As is common, her answers were not very precise and somewhat contradictory.  But, when they asked her for her vision for 5 years from now, her answer was clear—“I don’t want to have to worry as much.”  While this might not have been much of a business plan, it was guiding her choices every day. Read the rest of this entry »