Social enterprises aim to improve communities and help society benefit from their profits, so what could be more enterprising or more social than a bank for illiterate village women? This is what the unassuming Chetna Sinha has set up: an Indian cooperative bank for 310,000 rural women, doing US$100 million worth of banking and micro-financing. “People assume poor people want access to credit but they want to plan their lives,” says Mrs Sinha, who visited
Indian social entrepreneur of the year gives rural women access to banking
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