In a town ravaged by AIDs, widows, single moms, and needy moms unite in a microenterprise to survive. Several years into the project they find themselves thriving.
Their product? Recycling plastic grocery bags into pocketbooks.
From WORLD
The bags: colorful crocheted pocketbooks fashioned from recycled plastic grocery bags. Half of the revenue from each pocketbook goes to its maker, 25 percent goes to her bank, and 25 percent to a profit-sharing pool. Wilkinson notes that “because of this banking system the women are able to give out loans to each other. I have not given out a loan in over two years.”
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