WIL-Funded
VILLAGE BANKS
Pro Mujer Mexico
Texcoco, Mexico
2008
Pro Mujer is the only institution in Mexico that combines microfinance with health care and the empowerment of women.
United We Stand, Group 2 Village Bank
Near Accra, Ghana (Liberia Refugee Camp)
2008
Buduburam is a UNHCR refugee camp near Accra, Ghana, with more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone. The camp is served by Liberian and international NGO groups and volunteer organizations.
No web site for this bank
Masanteng Village Bank- Small Enterprise Foundation
Jane Furse, South Africa
2009
The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF) is a pro-poor microfinance institution (MFI) that was founded in 1992. SEF provides financial and non-financial services to about 113,000 women in rural areas in Limpopo in 2014.
Pro Mujer Nicagarua- "Virgen Maria" village bank.
Chinandega, Nicaragua
2009
Nicaragua suffers from the highest cervical cancer mortality rate of any country in the Americas. Attending to this overwhelming public health concern, Pro Mujer has provided nearly 22,500 cervical cancer screenings in the last two years.
Friendship Bridge and Las Campesinas Village Bank
Guatemala
2010
Friendship Bridge works primarily with indigenous Guatemalan women in rural areas where the rate of poverty in Guatemala is the highest. While illiteracy and poverty rates are staggering in these regions, the women we work with are determined to create a change.
Visited by WIL group
PRIDE
Tanzania
2011
Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises Limited (PRIDE Tanzania) is a micro finance institution involved in provision of credit to small and micro entrepreneurs in Tanzania.
Funded in honor of Lori Geenawalt.
Sevis Finansys Fonkoze
Ganthier area, Haiti
2012
Fonkoze (The Foundation) was created over 23 years ago to bring financial inclusion and development services to Haiti's poor - providing them a viable way to lift themselves out of poverty.
Sevis Finansys Fonkoze
Ganthier area, Haiti
2013
Fonkoze (The Foundation) was created over 23 years ago to bring financial inclusion and development services to Haiti's poor - providing them a viable way to lift themselves out of poverty.
CARD
Philippines
2014
Center for Agriculture and Rural Development. With landless women as target clients in mind, CARD MRI first offered microloans for small-scale livelihood activities, education, health and agriculture through CARD, Inc. After several years of training and educating these women on how to manage their loans, they evolve into businesswomen who are now in need of formal banking system.
LEWA
Kenya
2015
The LEWA Women's Micro-Credit Programme supports rural women living in the communities surrounding the Conservancy. We provide them with low-interest loans to enable them initiate micro-enterprises such as tailoring, homestead retail shops, poultry-keeeping, farming and more.
Friendship Bridge and Las Campesinas Village Bank
Agraria la Campesina, Guatemala
2015
Friendship Bridge works primarily with indigenous Guatemalan women in rural areas where the rate of poverty in Guatemala is the highest. While illiteracy and poverty rates are staggering in these regions, the women we work with are determined to create a change.
Funded in memory of Bobbi Gohn.
Esparanza International
Dominican Republic
2015
Esperanza International is a Christian-based not-for-profit organization that is devoted to helping poverty-stricken people of the Dominican Republic through finance, education, health, and spiritual programs
Visited by WIL group
FACHIG
Zimbabwe
2016
The Farmers’ Association of Community self-Help Investment Groups Trust (FACHIG Trust) operates in rural areas of Zimbabwe. It is a women-led farmer organisation engaging in value chain-driven climate smart agriculture and gender justice issues.
FINCA
Uganda
2016
Since 2017, FINCA Uganda marks 25 years of providing relevant financial services to her over 200,000 clients hence empowering and impacting communities positively.
DCBS
India
2017
Dhosa Chandaneswar Bratyajan Samity (DCBS) is a micro finance institution (MFI) operating in the Indian states of West Bengal & Bihar since 2003. DCBS is committed to providing access to loans to marginalized people living in undeserved areas of rural India.
Funded in memory of Andrea Brod.
FINCA
Afghanistan
2018
FINCA Afghanistan serves more than 25,000 clients—especially women, ethnic minorities, and returning refugees—through 21 locations in the country with individual, small group, SME, agriculture and Islamic loans.
Street Child
Sierra Leone
2018
Just nine years later, we have helped over 100,000 street-children to go to school and supported over 15,000 families to set up businesses across five countries.
FINCA
Ecuador
2018
Banco FINCA currently supports approximately 31,000 Ecuadorians with small loans, which average around USD 2030, in addition to other financial services tailored to the needs and possibilities of their customers.
LEWA
Kenya
2018
The Lewa Women’s Micro-Credit Programme supports rural women living in the communities surrounding the Conservancy. We provide them with low-interest loans to enable them initiate micro-enterprises such as tailoring, homestead retail shops, poultry-keeeping, farming and more.
NWTF
Philippines
2019
Founded in 1984, NWTF is a non-government organization committed to the fight against poverty by providing Grameen-based micro financing and developmental services to the marginalized urban and rural poor of Central Philippines.
