Compléter A Bank for the Down and OutVersion en ligne A fill-in-the-blank activity from our reading text. par Susan Churchill 1 aid invented installments bracelets money woman simple life destitute poor cow burden buy loan children beg What this man has is called micro - credit . It is both terribly and , in the field of development and , completely revolutionary . Younus' bank gives loans of as little as $30 to the . A typical borrower would be a Bangladeshi ( 96 percent of the bank's borrowers are women ) who has never touched money before . All her , her father and husband will have told her she is useless and a to the family ; finally , widowed or divorced , she will have been forced to to feed her . Yunus' bank lends her and doesn't regret it . She uses the loan to an asset that can immediately start paying income , such as cotton to weave , or raw materials for to sell , or a she can milk . She repays the loan in tiny until she becomes self - sufficient . Then if she wants , she can take out a new , larger . Either way , she is no longer .