Widows and single mothers: a small business to get back on their feet

Training, a savings group and a first loan: how we help women on their own support their families.

For a widow or a single mother, every day is a struggle to feed her children. Many are rejected by their family and live with no income at all.

We help them start an income generating activity: small trade, market gardening, livestock. Practical training teaches them to calculate their costs, set their prices and save.

Brought together in savings and credit groups, the women lend money to one another and support each other. Earning a living means regaining one's dignity and being able to send one's children to school.