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How to Leave When You've Become Part of the Community

My microloan group meets every week and these women have become like family to me but I'm moving back to the city and I feel like I'm abandoning them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal attachments complicate professional boundaries in intimate development work.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

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