Microfinance côté face

It is sometimes said that Africans are no hard-workers. It is also assumed that their poverty comes from that lack of work. If it were true, how could we explain the daily work of Maïmouna, Marceline, Odjouma, Ablassé and all of the others? They are all clients of micro-finance and work hard to get out of the vicious circle of poverty. A micro-loan represents a helping hand for them, and with it, some people manage to survive and enhance their life quality, while some others succeed in building real businesses.

Guy Wolff, a photo reporter from Luxembourg went to Mali and Burkina Faso to meet those micro-entrepreneurs and to tell us about this new kind of fight against poverty.

The exhibition “Microfinance côté face” highlights a facet of Africa that is still little known: a brave and motivated continent, a continent that is not afraid to work.