Who helped set up the Child Development Bank in India?
A. The government of India.
B. The UN
C. An organization of the Hope Project
D. The children themselves
Like most bankers of his age, Anuj Chaudhry has a lot to think about each day, such as balancing the books, checking on overdue loans, and finishing his homework. Well, okay, so the world doesn't have a lot of 13-year-old bankers. The number of orphaned, street-dwelling, rag-picking youths who run cooperative banks for homeless children must be even smaller. Anuj and the 160 members of Child Development Bank, however, say that children who live on the street should have more opportunities to take charge of their finances and help each other escape the cycle of poverty. If they wait for adults to provide for them, they say, they'll wait forever.
"They are saving their money and proving their worth," says Anuj in the bank's headquarters." Now they have hope for the future."
The concept behind Anuj's bank -giving small loans for small projects -is not new, but while activists and development experts are quick to offer small loans to poor women in Bangladesh to start their own businesses, for instance, or to homeless adults in London or New York to learn new job skills, lenders are more skeptical when it comes to giving money to poor kids. Will they spend it on drugs? Will they just take it and run?
"The general view of working with children is that we can only see them as being protected from the world, within the four walls of a home," says Rita Panicker, director of Butterflies, a non-profit group that helped set up the Child Development Bank. "People forget that the children we're working with are very powerful. They're masters of their own destiny, if only in their minds."
Answer: C
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