Unit 8
  What is
micro-credit and how is it raising the status of   women?
 
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Senegalese Woman

  What is micro-credit and how is it raising the status of   women?


This unit tells how "micro-credit", the system of making small loans to women's businesses has aided women in developing regions, their families and communities in many developing regions of the world. It tells how this success of micro-enterprises has resulted in the year 2005 being declared the "International Year of Micro-credit." 

The unit's structural focus is the formation of the possessive, using a phrase with "of" or using an apostrophe 's' ('s or s' ). The listening passage is a UN tv webcast that shows how a Palestinian woman benefitted from  of micro-credit programme. The writing task offers the opportunity to practice summary writing skills.

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