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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

“Sawant is one of 40,000 Indian women who are defying poverty by working for and jointly owning Lijjat, which has a $66 million global market, including Singapore, London and New York. Run by a self-help group that shares profit among its all-female members, Lijjat is doing for India what the booming software industry can’t: provide the tools of economic improvement to those without formal education.” Read full article here.