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Empower women refugees from South Sudan with microcredit

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Empower women refugees from South Sudan with microcredit

South Sudan 26 Contributors Launched January 01, 2024 Funding ends:31-12-2024

The challenge

Ongoing conflict in South Sudan, which broke out in mid-December 2013, has caused mass displacement within the country and across its borders. Seeking safety, shelter, food and basic medicine, more than 1.1 million people have been internally displaced and over 400,000 have fled to neighboring countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.

 

Some of the women in Magwi County, near South Sudan’s southern border with Uganda, have spent years in exile. Today, despite the dangers, they have returned to their homes only to face a scarcity of food and clean water, along with poor or non-existent access to such basic services as healthcare and education.

 

Civil war has also destroyed the women’s livelihoods and the women are now forced to rebuild their lives from scratch. The creation of sustainable income-generating activities is vital, providing a source of income, as well as a precious sense of hope. 

The solutions we’re proposing

W4’s field project in Magwi County has launched a microfinance project to support the local community’s 200 women returnees as they rebuild their lives. The project’s approach is two-fold:

 

First, the women benefit from essential business and management training in order to help guarantee the success of their small businesses.

 

Upon completion of these courses, the women form small groups of approximately 20 women borrowers. These groups hold weekly meetings and are a crucial component of the project; they serve both to provide support and solidarity for the women in their small business endeavors and to help ensure loan repayments, thanks to borrowers’ mutual oversight.

 

Each woman is provided with an annual microloan of $125 and makes monthly loan repayments of $10.42 (a 20% interest rate funds the complementary training and a revolving loan fund to provide loans for more women). The women use their loans to start small businesses such as bee, poultry and vegetable farms, grocery shops, handicrafts, or tailoring boutiques.

The impact of giving

Thanks to training and microloans, women returnees in Magwi County acquire the skills, support and financial resources they need to establish sustainable small businesses. They then invest their income in meeting their basic needs and those of their families, including their children’s education.

 

In a context of violent conflict and pervasive deprivation, you can provide women returnees with a vital opportunity to create new livelihoods, so they can build themselves a better future.

 

 

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Contributors

Marie
France

Adrian S.
France

Suzanne
United States

W4
France

Claire
France

Gaby
France

Vincent
France

Sophie
France

Anonymous
United States

Anonymous
Finland

Anonymous
United States

laurence
France

Sylvie
France

Bonne année 2020!

morgane
France

Adrien
France

Wonder Women of the
France

WWoW vous soutient !

Andrea
United Kingdom

Anonymous
France

Jo
United Kingdom

Lénaïc
France

Virginie
France

Pascale
Canada

Anonymous
France

virginie
France

Lindsey
France

Chloë
France

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