In 2003, Lai Ming, manager of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD), a non-profit microfinance organization providing financial services for women in Samoa, it was decided to lend fa'afafines after several asked whether SPBD give them. Fa'afafines are biologically male, but dress and behave as women. As boys become fa'afafines changing. It can be a matter of choice with the boy to take the female role, or it could be the role that they have raised, to play on a family that has no or few daughters and need someone to carry out the tasks of women in households: cooking, cleaning and washing. HKS Case Number 1805.0 "Hide
by Regina Galang, Susie Margolin, Guy Stuart 6 pages. Publication Date: September 19, 2005. Prod. #: HKS178-PDF-ENG
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