Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Local News: "Opportunity, not charity, is driving the Chiapas Project
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 29, 2005
Mercedes Olivera
Raising $790,000 in micro-lending funds to help poor women in the poorest state in Mexico start their own small businesses wasn't enough for Dallas businesswoman Lucy Billingsley.
She saw the effect it had on about 4,000 elderly and young women alike in Chiapas and wanted to see more results.
Now she's committed to raising an additional $3.5 million by the end of 2009 to improve the lives of an additional 93,000 women and their families."
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