Francisco Barquero, from Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN), explained that this line of credit will help Acodep in providing financing to credit and savings cooperatives.

"Barquero emphasized that Acodep has engaged in a transformation process in the past months, which has helped it gain more support from providers".

Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni

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