“And with your great help, we will be able to grow and help more poor people,” Edet says with a beaming smile.

I smile and ask him about his client base. His new microfinance organization, launched just 3 months ago, already has acquired 300 micro-depositors. Impressive.

A typical micro-deposit customer might be someone who sells yams on the side of the road in a wheelbarrow. He picks the yams up outside the city, wheels them to what he thinks would be a good sales corner and then spends a long day trying to sell yams. In a day, he can make about 500 Naira, or about $4. After daily necessities, he might have fifty cents or so to save. Save for a month and at the end, maybe he can buy a new pair of pants or shoes.(…)
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Television footage of the accident, which occurred at 2:45 p.m., showed clouds of white smoke billowing over the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport. The airport, the fourth busiest in Europe, ranks just behind Frankfurt in terms of passenger traffic.

There was no immediate official account