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I almost lost my marriage, until I did something most women would never dare. My name is Cynthia. I’m 35, a mother of two, and married to a man I once believed was incapable of betrayal. Daniel was my high school sweetheart. We built a

I never imagined that getting a loan, just a simple loan, would become one of the most humiliating and exhausting chapters of my life. My name is Kevin, a small business owner from Jinja, Uganda. I had a solid plan, a registered business, and a