Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs:	Listen
Beating poverty is difficult but micro-enterprise projects, which provide seed money, training, education, and support to low income women are proving to be great solutions. Elinoar Astrinsky spoke with Anna Wadia, director of the Program for Economic Security of the Ms. Foundation about empowering women by funding micro-enterprise projects. In Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses, Anna Wadia highlights women who became successful despite all odds.
Micro-Enterprise In Israel:	Listen
Russian, Ethiopian, Palestinian, and many other groups of low-income women are getting a chance to change their economic standing through a micro-enterprise project called: A Business of One's Own. Elinoar Astrinsky spoke with the development director of Economic Empowerment for Women, Chagit Rubinstein, about the successes and challenges that face those who join their micro-enterprise project.

This Week's Questions:
What business would you start if someone gave you five hundred dollars in seed money?

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Resources:
Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs by Martha Shirk and Anna Wadia published by Westview Press
Economic Empowerment for Women's micro-enterprise project - A Business of One's Own
Ms. Foundation for Women
Music: Ni Pa'ca Ni Pa'lla by Cubanismo on Rykodisc

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