Posted on October 22, 2008 - by lincolnw

Indonesia: Making a difference through microfinance

Brave, strong, independent and steadfast are the first impressions one has of 50 year-old Nasriah.She is one of many tsunami-affected women in Aceh who serve as the head of their families and are the sole income earners.

Every morning she walks more than a mile from her house in Blang Krueng village to the Krueng Aceh River. After harvesting oysters, she shucks them and prepares them to be sold at the market. Nasriah, a mother of six, lost her husband and two of her children to the 2004 tsunami. She began gathering and selling oysters after the disaster to support her remaining family.She had little help, meager resources and no access to a boat, making this already arduous work even more difficult…{click this link to read the rest of the article}