In short, she lost the opportunity to expand her business, to earn more for her family, to generate more employment and to add to her community’s income. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a poignant story of a success half-realized. On one hand, we saw how access to credit made such a huge positive impact on the life of a microentrepreneur from the marginalized sector.
On the other, we saw how capacity limitations and the inability to access additional financing prevented her from realizing the full potential of offshore markets for her products. Multiply this story many times over and you can imagine the countless missed opportunities for improving the lives of many more Filipinos. Sayang.