Microcredit plants seeds of success in Africa

(CNN) -- Microcredit programs make a difference on the ground level around the world by providing seed money to the poor to start businesses.

Such programs reach people who normally would not qualify or even know about traditional financial services.

Representatives of several African countries took part earlier this month in a summit in Zimbabwe on microcredit programs in their region.

These two reports from CNN correspondents look at how microcredit helped individuals make the transition from poverty to successful entrepreneurs in Kenya and Zimbabwe.

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