At the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad, Sujana Veeramachaneni holds more than her official titles of biology teacher and Assistant Coordinator for the Diploma Programme (DP), science teacher for the Middle Years Programme, and dorm parent. Sujana also ensures her students see her as a friend, mentor and pillar of support.

Rashidi Omari, age 42, benefitted from the cash-based savings group in Tanzania, because it allowed him to purchase and rear goats.  Today, he owns a farm on which the many goats he owns graze before they are later sold for meat.