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WomenAndMicrofinance
Mrs. Cuascota milks the family cow as her son steadies it.
With a small loan totalling no more than $440, Mrs. Cuascota purchased a pregnant calf. The loan assured her the capital she needed to start her small side business.READ MORE
Welcome
Even though women make up half of the world's population, they are under represented economically in the market place. In fact, women perform the majority of the world's work, but only control 1% of the world's assets.
At VisionFund, the microfinance subsidiary of World Vision, over 68% of all loan clients are women. These women are able to use small loans to improve or start up new businesses. Through increased economic resources, women can begin to provide and enrich themselves, their families and their communities. For more information about VisionFund, click here.
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VisionFund Highlights an Ecuadorian Mother
With a small loan totalling no more than $440, Mrs. Cuascota purchased a pregnant calf. The loan provided by the local World Vision affiliated microfinance institution, Fodemi, assured her the capital she needed to start her small side business.
Main Slide Show
Follow the lives of women, as they transform their circumstances through small loans.
This main slide show shares the stories of women's from Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and Brazil. Two additional slide shows focusing on either Bangladesh and Brazil or Rwanda and Azerbaijan are found at the end of this web page. Total Run Time: 10:30
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Learn
Please take a moment and learn how small loans through VisionFund, the microfinance arm of World Vision, are changing lives.
You can:
- Watch a short slide show focusing on women entrepreneurs
- Read one of eight stories showcasing how women have improved their lives through microfinance
- Watch the trailer for "A Powerful Noise"
- Support a female entrepreneur by buying fair traded products from World Vision small businesses
- Download a fact sheet on VisionFund, World Vision and women in microfinance
- Donate and support women entrepreneurs and their families through providing a microfinance loan through VisionFund and World Vision
Additional Stories of Women Transformed by Small loans
Click on any of the stories below to read how small loans empower women to change their life, and the lives of their family members, children and communities.
Azerbaijan
Follow Ulduz as she rebounds from a car accident by learning a trade as a carpet weaver.
Bangladesh
Walk with Noyontara as she supports her three children through new economic opportunity.
Brazil
Nilza used a small loan to become the most successful exporter of fair-trade product in Brazil, read her story.
Mexico
See how Blanca of Chiapas watches her family transform through a small loan and coffee.
Rwanda
See how Appoline has survived life as a refugee and victim of war. When all hope faded, a small loan turned her life around.
Serbia
Dragica's whole family experienced economic freedom through a loan she received to purchase livestock.
Tanzania
Watch Regina move from poverty to home owner and land lady, a story of transformation.
Thailand
Duangchan can now support her family as a seamstress. In fact, she produces school uniforms for World Vision.
Purchase Products Made by Entrepreneural Women
VisionFund and World Vision have teamed up with Heavenly Treasures to create a market for international hand crafters who have limited sales opportunities. With years of product marketing expertise, Kathy Gaulton, Founder of Heavenly Treasures, helps create appealing products by working directly with people in World Vision area development projects (ADPs) on product design. Many are then imported to the Heavenly Treasures store located in Glendora, CA, USA.
World Vision area development programmes just outside Antigua, Guatemala are the most recent recipients of Heavenly Treasure's expertise. Comprised of women from the Mayan tribe, they descend from a long line of weavers and embroiderers. Click here for product listing/purchasing and more information.
Heavenly Treasures has also built relationships with World Vision area development programmes in Cambodia, Kenya, Thailand, the Philippines and Ethiopia.
Fact Sheet
Click here to download a PDF that contains quick facts on VisionFund, World Vision and women in microfinance.
Donate
Change the life of a woman by supplying a small loan that she can use to pull herself and her family out of poverty.
Click on your home country to go to the microfinance page:
Australia | New Zealand | Singapore
United Kingdom | United States | Canada
Some donor countries do not offer microfinance, but do offer standard giving opportunities, such as child sponsorship, through their websites.
If you live in one of these countries, please visit your office's home page to give:
Austria | Brazil | Chile | Costa Rica | Finland | France
Germany | Hong Kong | India | Ireland | Japan | Korea | Malaysia
Netherlands | Philippines | Spain | Switzerland |Taiwan | Thailand
Additional Slide Shows
Follow the lives of women, as they transform their circumstances through small loans.
1. This slide show shares the stories of women small loan recipients from Bangladesh and Brazil.
Total Run Time: 5:30
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2. This slide show shares the stories of women small loan recipients from Rwanda and Azerbaijan.
Total Run Time: 7:23
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