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When social enterprises face tension between growth and values

My sister and I run a microcredit program for women in our community, but we disagree about expansion plans. She wants to scale up quickly to help more people, while I worry about maintaining the personal relationships and ubuntu principles that make our program different from predatory lending.

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You're grappling with how to scale ubuntu-based economic models without losing the relational foundation that makes them transformative rather than extractive.

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