SILC

Savings Groups Change Lives in Benin
The CRS Savings and Internal Lending Communities program helps members access capital to improve their businesses, homes and education.

Thriving Despite HIV in Kenya
Support and understanding enables families to grow and sustain healthy lives.

Savings Groups Spur Entrepreneurs in Nigeria
With access to financial services a major challenge, CRS’ savings groups enable participants to better manage finances and grow sustainable livelihoods.

Building Trust in Kenya’s HIV Health Care System
Through a CRS program, community health volunteers act as confidants, patient advocates and counselors.

Darfur Farmers Learn to Grow Despite Climate
Following years of conflict and disruption, Sudanese farmers found new skills and knowledge help them restore devastated lands and livelihoods.

Microfinance Groups Thrive in Malawi
Savings and Internal Lending Communities help poor families save and build assets.

Two CRS SILC Staffers Win Practitioner of the Year Awards from SEEP
Two CRS employees — Marc Bavois and Dina Brick — won Practitioner of the Year awards from The Small Enterprise Evaluation Project (SEEP) collaborative learning network recently at the annual SEEP conference.

CRS Microfinance Capacity Statement
During its decades of microfinance practice, CRS has focused on serving the poorest of the poor, primarily women and vulnerable populations living in remote rural communities for whom the cost of accessing financial services is very high. CRS began its microfinance work in 1988 by building the...

Investing & Growing in Ethiopia: How Savings Groups Help Families During Drought
Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) help thousands of women and their families in Ethiopia improve their economic situation by starting small businesses, buying livestock or even sending their children to school.

Health Insurance for $7
As it has all over the world, CRS’ microfinance program brings much more than fiscal help to parents in Benin.