In 2006, she took control back of her life. With the help of a $100 microloan, she started turning this situation around. From the Grameen Foundation's Web site;

But at the beginning of 2006, Samsariah took control and began to turn her luck around. She formed a group and received a $100 loan from Yayasan Mirtra Dhuafa (YAMIDA) to buy the necessary equipment to re-start her business. She contacted the man at the nearby market with whom she used to do business to see if he would buy her oysters. He agreed and she immediately set to work. Within a day of receiving the loan she once again had an income.



With the money she makes from her oysters, combined with the odd jobs her sons find, they manage to make ends meet. Samsariah plans to open a stall of her own in the local market, which would allow her to benefit from a markup of her sales price. The profits from owning her own stall would enable her hire someone else to fish for and shell the oysters. As her income continues to improve, she hopes to send her adopted sons to school. She dreams of them finishing high school, a dream that no one in her immediate family has yet realized.

It was through a microloan program that Ibu was able to get life back on track, and start supporting herself again. In the middle of the tragedy and devastation, she took in two other children who were orphaned. Now there's a good deed and it was rewarded by another good deed, a microloan. That good deed was furnished with the good deed of folks who donate money to help the poor sustain their own lives on their own through microloans. You see, good deeds are rewarded in ways you may never know how.



The Grammen Foundation is on the forefront of the microfinance initiative to help people like Ibu achieve the most of her life, and to provide for herself and her family. It's all good deeds, and no punishment despite that old saying.



You can be a part of this effort by doing a good deed yourself. Grameen has a fundraising and awareness initiative going on until February 2010. It's called the Ingenuity Fund Challenge. It's challenge to people to use their ingenuity and creativity by creating a fund raising page, and getting people to donate, thus allowing more good deeds. The page that is determined to be the most creative will win a trip for 2 overseas to see Grameen's work of micofinace and technology solutions for the poor in action. You will see the direct benefit of the good deed you have done by raising funds for Grameen to continue their mission, one that is collection of good deeds that alleviates the punishing situation of poverty.