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From pastry seller to kiosk owner: a micro-credit success story in Ghana
Sinapi Aba Trust is an autonomous private non-governmental organization registered in 1994 as a company limited by guarantee. SAT provides microfinance services to entrepreneurs in small and micro enterprises in Ghana. One of the entrepreneurs who has been helped by SAT is Akosua who used to...
Watercredit Initiative: Connecting Micro-finance to Water and Sanitation
The WaterCredit Initiative is an initiative of WaterCredit Partners, an organisation with a long history of providing grants to assist communities with water supply and sanitation (WSS) services.
Uganda: Kampala to get Sh480 Million Sanitation Project
The Ministry of Water and Environment and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), have launched a public-private initiative to improve access to sanitation for the urban poor in Kampala. The project will be implemented in partnership with Crestanks and Poly Fibre, private companies that produce...
NGO to assist Nigerian government towards alleviation of poverty through micro-credit
The Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF, a Nigerian NGO), has announced its intention to contribute to the Federal Government's fight towards the alleviation of poverty in Nigeria by providing access to micro credit facilities at the grass roots and to small scale entrepreneurs.
Micro-credit project for Darfur refugees
The Pilot Light Foundation, an organisation that creates and supports small projects in Africa that have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for impoverished Africans in non urban areas, and the Sudan Self Help Foundation, an NGO that supports projects aimed at promoting...
Uganda : Project Hope and Hard Work
The importance of microcredit in Uganda has soared in the recent decade and the instrument is now seen as one of the most effective tools to tackle poverty in the country.
Expending women enterpreneurship in India
Unilever has begun replicating Hindustan Unilever’s (HUL) rural micro-enterprise (in India), led by women-entrepreneurs, Project Shakti in several international markets.
Micro loan and group support in Mali
In rural Mali, Miama sells rice to support her family. Until recently, this has been a major strain. But now, thanks to both a micro loan and the group support Miama receives from Freedom from Hunger's Benkadi Tongorongo association, Miama no longer has to worry.
How a small loan can change things
Akosua, a shopkeeper in Ghana,remembers selling small pastries from door to door like it was yesterday. “My business was very small then,” she said. Luckily, a friend told her about Sinapi Aba (SAT), the largest microfinance institution in Ghana. She saw this as the very opportunity she needed to...
A long-necked expansion: micro-credit and tourism save giraffes in Niger
ASGN (the Association to Safeguard the Giraffes of Niger) has used grants from the Wildlife Protection Foundation in the UK and from the Zoo de Doue in France to set up a successful micro-credit scheme. The scheme helps women to develop and run small enterprises which in turn mean that their...