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A Micro Credit success story
Since 1997, the Tunisian Bank of Solidarity (BTS) has helped young graduates to create their own enterprises. In its ten years of existence, the Bank has helped more than 460,000 microenterprises and startups.
The Veolia Foundation helps to save jobs for people with disabilities
ESAT (établissement ou Service d'Aide par le Travail) an organisation run by the French NGO, CPRH, employs 130 people with disabilities. Employees are involved in environmental activities (horticulture, creation of open spaces) and packaging. As the market in these two areas has declined, jobs at...
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...
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.
Enda inter-arabe: micro-credit in Tunisia
Enda inter-arabe is an international NGO operating in Tunisia. A member of ENDA Third-World based in Senegal, the organisation has been providing microcreditin Tunisia for 15 years. One of enda inter-arabe's borrowers is Nezha Toujani, who learned how to sew in a textile factory in Tunisia. ...
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...
The Centre for Self-Help Development: a Nepalese microfiinance success story
Microfinance programs are helping reduce both urban and rural poverty across Nepal in what amounts to a micro-finance revolution.
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.
SKS Microfinance: Lakshmi's story
SKS Microfinance in India is a client of Unitus Capital, a US-based organisation that works with organisations involved in micro finance. "There are many microlending success stories", said Mamta Bharadwaj, spokesman for SKS Microfinance. One of these stories is Lakshmi's. When Lakshmi...