Kalai, like many other villages in Bangladesh, appears a rural idyll at
first sight. But several villagers here have resorted to selling organs
to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to lift them out of
poverty. Journalist Sophie Cousins reports on an alarming consequence of
the microfinance revolution.
Green rice paddies surround the dusty, narrow road to the heart of Kalai, a
village six hours north of Dhaka, in Bangladesh's Jotpurhat district. Children
play naked, hanging off stringy bits of bamboo that hold up the makeshift hut
they live in.
