A friend who works in microfinance invited me to go with her one day to see her organization in action. Howrah is an area across the river from Kolkata proper, and I was able to see very different communities from those I usually interact with in Kolkata. I was privileged to watch women, who are the clients, repay their loans and show my colleague and me their small businesses. The first photo is the line of taxis outside of the Howrah train station waiting to receive passengers coming in from all over India. The railways are still very much in use here. The four women in the one photo are standing outside of one of their vegetable shops. The other photo, showing a lane in a small village, was where I got to meet a whole group of children, who were fascinated by the westerners who were visiting.
