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So when I say we've invested it means the crowd has invested so we as a facilitator have

combined those investments. I think we're getting close to 175 million in euros.

Mostly into renewables, agriculture and financial inclusion sectors, really from your

traditional microfinity into commercial and industrial solar, solar home systems,

bio gas digesters. You name it. There's still in Eastmark such a huge opportunity. If you have the

funding and you have the right mindset of course, it is very easy to grow.

Martin Riese is a water sommelier to the stars. I'd heard of this once and thought it was silly too,

but then I stumbled onto an interview of his on an old Nick is not green video. And yeah,

let's just say that if you come to my house this summer, I'll probably be able to offer you a

choice of exotic mineral waters. I am incredibly privileged. I have all the clean water I need

piped right into my house and so I can amuse myself with naturally sparkling spring waters with

sky high TDS numbers. But for most of the world, that's not the case. In Campala, Uganda,

Florence is an entrepreneur who sells drinking water to her neighborhood. Now from a bigger

tank she acquired via a lease to own program, the underlying credit for that lease was funded by

European impact investors through Lenderhand. In rural Kyrgyzstan, Farida used a microloan to buy a

cow, a cow whose milk she sells for extra income, a microloan that was funded by European impact

investors through Lenderhand. Welcome to how to lend money to strangers with Brendan Lagrange.

Adrian Skappost, Data Leader at Lenderhand. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.

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