MPA’s best microfinance practices include: clear, fixed loan terms and rates; group training; support; emphasizing savings; focusing on income projects; expecting borrowers to pay it forward; and bolstering organizations to eradicate poverty.
Almost half of everyone earns less than $1.25/day (the extreme poverty line); 30% are undernourished; half have had cholera or other water-born illnesses; 6% of women die during pregnancy/childbirth, and fewer than one-fifth of women have access to education.
MPA’s projects report 95+% repayment rates on loans; improved household savings; better family nutrition; improved school attendance; and increased early identification of potential high-risk pregnancies.
Join us in impacting communities in Africa by providing a hand up from poverty to possibility. With each donation made, you’re supporting a business entrepreneur to lift themselves out of extreme poverty with dignity and respect.
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I’m InGrassroots microfinancing organizations offer training, support, and a reliable method of saving, borrowing, and growing a business. Individuals begin saving. Farmers help each other prepare their farms.
Small groups train together and support each other in planning their income projects.
When the loan is repaid (or the living animal loan is retired by passing on an offspring), the income project grows in success. Savings grows. Family nutrition, health, schooling improves.
People who have struggled have transformed themselves into donors and leaders, helping their neighbors, solving community issues.
MPA’s partners strive to get people on the ladder to climb out of extreme poverty. MPA’s role is to widen the rungs: we get as many people as possible on the ladder.
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Where there is hope, there is no room to be tired.
We used to sit around and curse the world, but now we are too busy with our income projects.
Now I can feed my children tea before they go to school.
The members of the self help group don’t ask us for handouts anymore. They are bringing their problems to the group, and the group helps them.
to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity and respect.