SYRIA: MICRO CREDIT PROGRAMME EXPANDING</I> - 2005-05-18

HAMA, 18 May (IRIN) - Mohamad Abul Jadayel, a father of two in the northwestern Hama governorate in Syria, used to be unemployed for long periods of time. Sometimes he didn't even have enough money to feed his family. But now his life has changed. 'We are now the largest micro finance project in the country and AKDN is working towards establishing a national micro finance institution in Syria,' AKDN's programme coordinator, Aleem Walji, told IRIN in the capital, Damascus.