SILC

Savings Groups Prove Good for Cameroon Business
Along with offering financial services that include lending opportunities, savings groups also foster trust and cooperation within communities.

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.

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.