The women of the house took out loans from Sahayata in order to enable this family business to expandEven though Sahayata's loans are given out strictly to women, the loan (mostly in cases of joint families which run a single business) is actually used up by the elders or the men of the house for the family business. One of the down sides of a for profit model is exactly this - no premium is ever actually placed on empowering the woman, the priority lies in collecting back the loan with interest. Of course its hard to argue that the family (and consequentially the woman herself) didn't benefit from the loan given out.
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