Rural Micro-Finance for Poverty Alleviation

Summary

Train women and youth in savings and lending activities; augment their income-generating activities; create self-help solutions to community issues and strengthen their literacy and math skills.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $3,676 was raised for this project.

Received $3,676 from 19 donations from people like:

Tad
Janice Eby
(Anon.)

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Rural women and youths in Zimbabwe suffer from a hyperinflationary economic environment: a deteriorating market for their small goods and tough conditions to accumulate significant assets. This project will train 40,000 women and youths in savings and lending activities, empowering them economically and helping them boost their individual income-generating activities.

Activities

Introducing members to savings and lending services to strengthen literacy & math skills; creating associations to address community-wide issues through self-sufficiency; building capacity to carry out effective large-scale micro-finance activities.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $3,676

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $3,676.  The original project funding goal was $75,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Correcting gender imbalances that exclude women from resources that contribute to their empowerment in the household and society. Providing means for the reduction of poverty among women and youth members, the majority of whom live in rural areas.

Project Message

"Education is the weapon of development--as a woman from grassroots rural Zimbabwe, I have seen some of the lasting effects that creative education has brought to women."
- Virginia Mupanduki, Executive Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dennis Takaendesa,
Programme Officer (ZALA)
Private bag 668
Kopje, Harare
Zimbabwe
00263 4 799 007
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Zimbabwe Adult Learner's Association Logo Zimbabwe Adult Learner's Association
Private bag 668
Kopje, Harare 
Zimbabwe
00263 4 799 007

Learn more about Zimbabwe Adult Learner's Association and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Zimbabwe and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Zimbabwe, read the Human Development Report on Zimbabwe or the Wikipedia entry for Zimbabwe.

When this Project was Updated

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 20, 2004.

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