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Yallingup, Western Australia
Email:
viti@bearfruit.com.au
Website:
http://www.bearfruit.com.au
Shila KC to catch up with a number of her members in the one area to pass on information or
listen to their queries.
What is unquestionable in all of the above activity is social change is alive and well. It was a
privilege to have spent the morning in observation in a facility that clearly provides its members
with a ‘sense of place’ and a feature of microfinance cooperatives lending scheme whereby,
“…borrowers are required to form groups of five from among their peers and accept joint
responsibility for repayment loans. Access to further credit in the future is conditional on all
group members.”
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This ends the Jutpani microfinance fieldwork section of this report. However, the way is open to
discuss my fieldwork activities and reflective practice from the 2003 – 2005 Australasia study and
further explain how it underpins the parallels I’ve observed in the ‘shared experiences’ among
rural women in Australasia and Nepal.
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Bernasek, ( 2003) p.372