The mission of WomensTrust is to empower women and girls in Pokuase, Ghana through microenterprise, education, and healthcare, and to inspire others to do the same elsewhere.
Most of our clients make their living in the informal economy as hairdressers, bakers, seamstresses, and “petty” traders, selling goods from tables and tiny kiosks or carrying them from place to place. With WomensTrust capital, they are able to increase or diversify their inventories. They can buy in bulk, decreasing their time away from work traveling to buy supplies. Profits accrued are immediately invested in better nutrition, healthcare, and education for themselves and their children.
We believe the climb out of poverty cannot be maintained by access to credit alone. In our model, the key to long-term economic growth is to integrate education and healthcare components with the micro-lending program to achieve sustainability.
WomensTrust does not help the poor; rather, we empower the under-resourced to sustain their climb out of poverty. Our agenda is to share our knowledge and our access to resources in order to encourage economic growth and sustainability.
"WomensTrust came to help the people in this town. And the reason why we liked what they did is that they gave us the tools to help us help ourselves."
- Theresa Amponsah, WomensTrust Loan Client and Ghanaian Board Member
Total Funding Received to Date: $72,974
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $27,025
Total Funding Goal: $100,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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