CUSTOMER BRIEF The Power to Visualize a Better Life A program to provide financial credit to Ugandan women uses JMP ® software to show the hardships and successes of loan recipients Robyn Nietert, a telecommunications attorney in Maryland, is excited – as well she should be. A program she helped launch less than two years earlier is giving women in an impov- erished region of rural Uganda the chance to become entrepreneurs and to gain independence, self-confi- dence and a better life. The Women’s Microfinance Initiative (WMI) launched in January 2008 as a nonprofit organization that provides credit to women living in villages near Mbale, in eastern Uganda. WMI extends interest-bearing loans of $50 to $250 to help these women finance their own enterprises to generate re

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