Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Family learns to save and invest as part of VICOBA – 1 June 2016
The ADK family is learning to save and invest money as members of a VICOBA community banking group. As a result of their... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro – Family sets precedent for community by paying back first micro-loan early – 22 April 2016
The MBN family has finished making repayments on their small business loan one month ahead of schedule. On 2 Feb 2016 they... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Village Community Banking has enough capital to start lending – 18 Apr 2016
The Lishe Bora Village Community Banking (ViCoBa) group in Kilema now has 1,389,000 TZS (US $661.42) in total deposits that they are... Read More
Battambang, KH – GP’s wife earns consistent income from successful pig business – 15 Apr 2016
The Healthy Life Garden Shop has sold their first batch of pigs and earned US$138 profit! The small business employs GP’s wife... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora employee finishes paying pig loans, prepares to sell pigs – 1 April 2016
Lishe Bora employee Laurenti has finshed making loan repayments on a pig-fattening loan he received in October 2015. He is especially excited... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Family earns first-round micro-loan from Village Community Banking group – 18 Mar 2016
The Lishe Bora VICOBA group has awarded its first round of small business loans to members. The POK family was one of... Read More
Battambang, KH – Garden shop helps SYP family pay for medicine – 22 Jan 2016
The SYP family are hardworking, but have recently come upon hard times. Poor rice yields, livestock disease, and illness has forced them... Read More
Siem Reap, KH – Family earns profit from selling pigs and expands vegetable garden – 8 Jan 2016
The LC family received a livestock micro-loan from a family in the UK via the Better Lives loan fund that is administered... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Employee qualifies for dairy cow loan, looks to improve home for family – 30 Nov 2015
Two years of productive, dependable work for Lishe Bora, as well as a consistently productive vegetable garden, have earned Eliza an employee... Read More
Siem Reap, KH – MRL’s garden earns much needed income – 27 Nov 2015
MRL lives with his wife, their three children, and two grandchildren in Peaksneng Village in Cambodia. Since joining the Peaksneng Garden Shop’s... Read More