May 28, 2021
Thriving Despite HIV in Kenya
Support and understanding enables families to grow and sustain healthy lives.
May 11, 2021
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.
April 26, 2021
Building Trust in Kenya’s HIV Health Care System
Through a CRS program, community health volunteers act as confidants, patient advocates and counselors.
April 16, 2021
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.
October 1, 2019
Microfinance Groups Thrive in Malawi
Savings and Internal Lending Communities help poor families save and build assets.
October 22, 2018
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.
March 8, 2018
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...
March 1, 2017
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.
March 22, 2016
Health Insurance for $7
As it has all over the world, CRS’ microfinance program brings much more than fiscal help to parents in Benin.
October 21, 2015
Microfinance: Savings Groups Sustain Growth
Every morning, Dayaba Ibrahim woke up worrying if it would be a good day. Too often, it was a bad day—a day when few, if any, of her seven children would eat.
Today she’s able to feed her family—and pay their school fees—with proceeds from her fried bread business.
Dayaba, who...
