The Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI Bank), India’s second largest bank, is planning on offering microfinance services to sex-workers as a way to provide sustainable opportunities to change professions. ICICI Bank plans on launching the program in Kolkata through a relationship with Durbar Mahila Samwanaya Samitee, a local NGO serving 65,000 sex-workers.
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