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Labor-Saving Technologies: Reducing women's workload and shifting gender norms in Ghana
Improving Nutrition and Resilience in Rwanda
Following long struggles to survive, women learn how to serve healthier diets and how to earn the money needed to build family food security.
Building Child Nutrition in Rwanda
The project stresses nutritional health needs for children, but also enables mothers to support their families through savings-led microfinance groups.
Saving and Growing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
After joining a savings group, a shopkeeper was able to better stock his store and buy wholesale to improve his income.
Savings Groups Fuel Business Growth in Chad
It’s just before 10am at the Koundoul market, some 25km outside of Chad’s capital city, N’Djamena, and Claudine Nenodji has nearly sold out of her daily stock of homemade beignets – fried donuts made from bean or millet powder.
“Business has been good lately,” she says, handing a few...
Finding Business Success at Age 53
Early each morning, 53-year-old Lucie Massal navigates the sandy streets of Koundoul, Chad, a small town about 25km from the country’s capital, N’Djamena. As she hops over puddles of muddy water, leftover from a recent rainstorm, she holds tightly onto a small, silver key in her hand. It is what...
Small Loans Return Big Gains for Women in Chad
Savings groups build social cohesion and trust, while offering opportunities to build homes, grow businesses and cover a variety of expenses.