Awards

• Short-listed for National Business Book Award 2010
• Short-listed for National Business Book Award 2010 (Canada)
• Shortlisted for National Business Book Award 2010.

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Thankfully, Saris on Scooters is about microcredit sans the big time. Call it the theory of general relativity. The level of analysis should fit the story, plain and simple. An investigation of microcredit needs to be made on a micro-level. -- The Mercury (Canada) July 2010 It's a well written, inspiring read, perfect for any sustainable traveller interested in the compelling stories of other people's lives. -- GAP Adventure website July 2010 Inspiring as such stories are, they are abundant in any number of publications and on the internet. What fleshes them out into a lively full-length book are other factors, including striking accounts of Hindu and Muslim women working to avoid con-flict in the face of an active attempt to stoke it by polarized communal groups, politicians and the police, and of a stay in a model organic farm in the foothills of the Himalayas to take a two-week course on Gandhi, Cultures of Non-violence and Globalization. -- Literary Review of Canada July/August issue, 2010 'These women are living examples of sustainable solutions to poverty. For decades the world has donated billons to fund megaprojects, while also inadvertently supporting corruption and oppressive regimes. This book will make us question how we help people in other societies.' -- Hudson-St. Lazare Gazette April 2010

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Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos is the author of a novel and two other non-fiction books, has won the Governor General's Literary Award, and has earned several journalism prizes for exposes about marginalized women and minorities. A former journalism professor, she spent a total of twenty-one months in India meeting grassroots women using microcredit to launch businesses and achieve social change. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women's World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity.

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