From Corner Store to Microfinance
Monday, January 13, 2014
With a master’s degree in social work and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy, Antoinette Temporiti spent 30 years counseling individuals and families. She specialized in working with young adult victims of sexual abuse and loved her career.
But a trip to Africa in 2004, when she was 54 years old, set her on a new path. Today, Sister Temporiti (a member of the Catholic religious order Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O’Fallon, based in O’Fallon, Mo.) heads up MicroFinancing Partners in Africa, a nonprofit she started in 2006.
“I was eating lunch one day and realized, ’The cost of this sandwich could help an African family start a business,’ ” she says. “I had to do something to give back to Africa.”
Source: The Wall Street Journal (link opens in a new window)
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