'Climate ninjas' overlooked as little finance reaches women
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Last Updated: Mar 10, 2021, 02:07 PM IST
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Aeloi Technologies allows impact investors to provide small loans in the form of digital tokens to women-run micro-businesses such as electric vehicles and climate-smart farming, so the women can continue to be "the climate ninjas they are right now".
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Finance isn't reaching groups "that we know make a difference at community level", said Zohra Moosa, executive director of Mama Cash.
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