For years, your incredible support has helped us build a strong foundation across southern Africa, empowering women in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. Now, we face a critical new mission: expanding our proven model to South Africa. This vital expansion hinges on your immediate support, as women in South Africa urgently need our help.
Despite being one of the more advanced economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa faces profound inequality and deep-seated poverty. The statistics reveal a compelling and urgent need for intervention:
At MicroLoan Foundation, we know that one opportunity can change everything. Our approach is simple yet effective: we provide financial literacy training and small business loans to women living in deep, persistent poverty. This empowers them to start and grow their own businesses, build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.
How MicroLoan helps:
Savings and Risk Management: We provide training and promote a culture of saving to offer client’s financial security.
Income Diversification: We assist clients in expanding income sources beyond agriculture to provide financial stability.
Recapitalisation: We offer essential funds to help clients sustain their businesses and families.
Loan Restructuring and Forgiveness: In the hardest hit areas, we restructure loans or write them off entirely.
The “Ripples of Possibility” begin with one empowered entrepreneur, spreading outward to transform families, communities, and ultimately regions. We’ve seen this transformative power in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and we are ready to replicate this success in South Africa.
£11 provides a woman’s first financial literacy and training session.
£58 gives a woman a startup loan to launch her small business.
£156 supports one woman with loans and training for a full year.
£550 delivers business training to a centre of 50 women.
£4700 funds a Loan & Training Officer to support 300 women for an entire year.
We invite you to join us as a founding supporter of MicroLoan Foundation South Africa. Your gift today launches a life-changing movement. Your legacy as a founding supporter will live through every woman who starts or grows her business, every child who attends school, and every community that is empowered because of your action today.
Published on: 30/05/2025