(For-profit organisation)

Three organisations comprise the WDB Group (the WDB Trust, WDB Micro Finance and WDB Investment Holdings). They are interdependent and integrated in working towards the promotion of the economic empowerment and social upliftment of women in South Africa.

The WDB Trust’s flagship beneficiary programme is WDB Micro Finance (WDB MF), a microcredit programme that replicates the Grameen Bank philosophy of banking on poor women. The WDB Trust is also the sole shareholder of WDB Investment Holdings established to create financial sustainability for the Trust’s beneficiary programmes. The WDB Trust is responsible for capacity building and fund raising for the WDB Group and innovating development projects that are aimed at improving the lives of poor rural women.

The WDB Trust has developed two programmes: an ICT programme that links women to technology through computer basic based literacy training and a
Business Development programme that provides women entrepreneurs with skills to help them run their businesses more efficiently.

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