article / Մայիս 16, 2015
New Homes for Tea Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka
“I moved into our living room with my wife when I got married,” says 30 year old Wilson who comes from a tea-plucker family.
article / Հոկտեմբեր 5, 2015
Loan Leads Family Out of Extreme Poverty
“If not for the help of microfinance loans, I wouldn’t have been able to start my piggery and support the schooling of my three children.
article / Սեպտեմբեր 6, 2019
Insurance – A Safety Net for Smallholder Farmers
Joyce Kabura Njenga, VisionFund’s Insurance Manager for Africa works in Nairobi, Kenya. She writes with passion about the important support that insurance is providing to smallholder farmers in Africa.
article / Հոկտեմբեր 8, 2019
Single Mom Trains Community Women
On a roadside overlooking the lagoon in Puttlam, northwestern Sri Lanka, is a glass-windowed shop full of brightly-coloured handicrafts; from teddy bears, bags and flowers to cane, bamboo and cloth products. This is a centre that facilitates the sale of products made by women.
article / Ապրիլ 4, 2020
Dionicio the merchant and businessman
Quevedo is a big city, full of busy and active businesspeople. The city center has vendors and stores of all kinds, with people buying and selling products and services, especially related to agricultural activities in the sector.
article / Հոկտեմբեր 19, 2019
Bathing Suits, Beaches and Profit
Among sewing machines, large rolls of fabric in vivid colours, threads in the floor and her 11 employees working devotedly, Dalila recalls calmly the most difficult times in her business: divorce, depression and over indebtedness. “Bad decisions led me there”.
article / Օգոստոս 20, 2021
Mobile Banking Supports Ghana Saving Groups
A year ago in March, COVID 19 posed a threat to the survival of savings groups.
article / Հոկտեմբեր 19, 2019
Farmer Elena
The air gets flooded with the milled maize leaves while Elena’s figure appears closer and closer. She had been milling the food for all the animals in her farm: bulls, chickens, sheep and turkeys. “I started growing sheep with my grandpa.