Tamara Vrooman: Aga Khan Network strives to improve lives

At a conference earlier this year, I moderated a panel on the role that values-based banks and credit unions can play in gender inclusion and equality.
The conversation was at times discouraging — showing just how much work there is to be done on this issue around the world — but what stood out for me was a story of both courage and inspiration.
It was about a bank in Afghanistan that opened the country’s first ever women-only branch. There are constant barriers in Afghanistan