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This blog chronicles the success stories of WORTH, a global women's empowerment program with headquarters at the NGO Pact, Inc. Pact's WORTH program has the goal to reach one million of the world's poorest women by 2011 with community banking services. WORTH, first piloted in Nepal with 125,000 women, provides women the opportunity to mobilize their own loan fund through saving together, to lend to each other and collect the interest on their loans, and to grow their micro- and small businesses. Women then have access to two streams of income: one from the profits of their small businesses and one from the distributions paid out to them by the bank. WORTH now reaches over 75,000 women in Cambodia and six countries in Africa - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.