ITN’s Alastair Stewart OBE has just returned from Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he visited micro-entrepreneurs who are improving their lives with small loans from www.lendwithcare.org, supported by the Co-operative.

As seen on The Guardian Money online.

Alastair Stewart, an Ambassador for CARE International UK, described his time in the country as “intellectually and emotionally pounding”. He visited five women who are using small loans to improve their lives, two of whom are widows from the 1995 massacre.

Mr Stewart said of his visit: “As a news man, my time in Bosnia reminded me how desperately close we still are to the atrocities that swept through the Balkans less than 20 years ago. But with Lendwithcare.org there is an uplifting realisation that so much could be done for so many with so little. Having witnessed the massive difference a loan can make to people who have endured terrible hardship, I’m really proud to have made a loan on lendwithcare.org. The lendwithcare.org vouchers represent an opportunity to make an extraordinary gift this Christmas.”

Lendwithcare, an initiative of global poverty fighting charity CARE International UK, allows people in the UK to make small loans directly to individuals in developing countries to help them start or expand their own business, helping them feed their families and send their children to school.

Visit lendwithcare.org and make a loan to an entrepreneur - from as little as £15.