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WIL-Funded

VILLAGE BANKS

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.

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

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.

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.

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