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WIL-Funded

VILLAGE BANKS

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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