Social enterprises aim to improve communities and help society benefit from their profits, so what could be more enterprising or more social than a bank for illiterate village women?

This is what the unassuming Chetna Sinha has set up: an Indian cooperative bank for 310,000 rural women, doing US$100 million worth of banking and micro-financing.

More information: http://www.thenational.ae/business/the-life/indian-social-entrepreneur-of-the-year-gives-rural-women-access-to-banking