By Zachary Rodriguez | Co-Founder
Hi, Donors,
I'll begin by thanking you for your support of Embrace It Africa, and particularly our microfinance initiative, Mikwano Microfinance. We've continued to progress this summer on increasing the capacity of Mikwano Microfinance. This has been done in two trajectories: education and construction.
We have formed a relationship with a UK-based non-profit organization called Teach A Man To Fish. TAMTF "works with local partners, in-country, providing tailored on-site support to schools and NGOs which are setting up businesses. Our field officers work to train school staff and students to run their own businesses so that the project becomes sustainable over the long-term." I have attached a proposal that they put together for our Mikwano Microfinance project. This will be effective both in training staff to run the microfinance institution, and will help community members with developing their business goals.
We started construction on the facility in June, and hope to have it completed by the end of the year. Construction is usually a quick process, however, what kept us from completing construction was determining, internally, the best use of our funds at hand. After much discussion, and other donations, we decided to green light the construction process.
I plan to head to Uganda in October/November, so look for another update towards the end of the year! Again, I appreciate you support, and if you'd like to know more about our projects, don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Sincerely,
Zachary Rodriguez
By Zachary Rodriguez | Co-Founder
By Zachary Rodriguez | Co-Founder
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