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Selling handbags in a Ukrainian market enables Anna Edelstein to assist her husband in providing for their 3-year-old son, Yaroslav. She has received two loans—for $560 and $750—that have helped her significantly expand her inventory. When asked to describe HOPE’s impact on her family, Anna responded, “We have joy; we have income; we have subsistence.”