Browse by Topic: Microfinance

Support Sustainability for Honduran Farmers

Honduras

Microfinance

Enable families in a new Agros village in Honduras to increase their income through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, to buy the land that they are working.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - Provides pipes and a faucet for one household.

$60 - Provides training on water purification and safety methods.

$150 - Provides training for village representatives to install and maintain a water system.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Microloans for 400 poor women in rural Uganda

Uganda

Microfinance

Self-perpetuating mirofinance initiative issuing collateral-free, interest-bearing loans, for as little as $50, to poor women in rural Uganda so they can start businesses to support their families.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$10 - Contribute to a $50 loan for 1 impoverished woman to start a business

$50 - Provide a loan for 1 impoverished woman to start a business

$100 - Provide a loan for 2 impoverished women to start a business

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Develop Women Savings & Credit Cooperative, Nepal

Nepal

Microfinance

Strengthen women’s cooperatives, develop management skills of the members, and improve the economic position of the women through income generating projects and sustainable agriculture practices.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - 1 woman can develop leadership skills to better manage their cooperative

$50 - 2 women can be trained on sustainable farming methods like seed-saving and composting

$75 - 5 women can learn about saving groups, how to conduct meetings and how to register their cooperative

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Support Sustainability for Guatemalan Farmers

Guatemala

Microfinance

Families in the village of Villa Linda will be able to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, buy the land that they are working.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - Provides credit management training for one woman.

$60 - Provides a woman's first loan in a community bank.

$150 - Buys a cow to begin a dairy business.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency

Guatemala

Microfinance

Guatemalan women and their families will receive loans, training, and support necessary to start small businesses and achieve long-term economic stability and self-sufficiency.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - 10 families can receive basic financial management training to run their businesses better

$50 - 10 families will be trained on livestock care and disease preventions

$100 - 10 families can receive 1000 baby chicks and training to start a chicken cooperative

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Tailoring: A Small-Business Skill for Afghan Women

Afghanistan

Microfinance

About 500 women each month learn tailoring and how to run a small tailoring business from their homes. Women enter the 6-month course not knowing how to thread a needle; they leave with a livelihood.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Supplies a woman with cloth and tools so she can take a six-month tailoring course, which will enable her to learn a skill and earn a living for herself and her children.

$50 - 5 women have cloth and tools for the tailoring course.

$88 - One woman becomes a tailor after graduating from the 6-month course.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Lao Weaving Artisans - Micro Credit Project

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Microfinance

This pilot will provide loans to women in the Vientiane Province. Using a microfinance program, SEDA will provide financial services to people whom otherwise would not have access to funds.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$75 - Loan amount

$300 - Net income for the individual each month

$375 - profit from 15 skirts in one month

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Support Sustainability for Nicaraguan Farmers

Nicaragua

Microfinance

Supporting the Agros villages of Nicaragua will enable families to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects. The families can then buy the land that they are working.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - Provides a door for one home.

$60 - Provides construction training for 8 people.

$150 - Provides a roof for one home.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Be! - inspiring girls to become entrepreneurs

India

Microfinance

BE! is a multimedia movement to inspire millions of girls in India to choose to become entrepreneurs, to solve the social, economic & environmental problems they face in their lives.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$50 - Distribute 50 Be! Books to children in Government schools

$250 - Cost of one day photography to create a children’s Be! story book about solar, waste, water enterprises

$2500 - Be! one minute movie that explores an entrepreneurial skill with children

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Peace, Health etc.

United States

Microfinance

Peace, Health etc. is a professionally managed fund working to solve the worlds interrelated problems. Your single donation is divided equally among six carefully chosen organizations.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - Covers the cost of training materials for a grassroots business leader to attend a financial literacy workshop, providing them with skills to run their business

$900 - Gives a Bosnian woman a loan to start a business

$7500 - Provides two weeks of professional hands-on medical training for third-world doctors

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

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