About us

736 million people around the world live in poverty.

Survival is doubly difficult for women.

They struggle to feed their families, provide accommodation, send their children to school or afford even the most basic elements of healthcare. One in 13 of their children will die before the age of five. Their lives are a daily battle for survival. One which all too often they lose.

Our mission is to provide the poorest women in sub-Saharan Africa with the tools and skills to enable them to work their own way out of poverty.

With small loans and business training from MicroLoan Foundation, women facing poverty can build small businesses and become self-sufficient for their daily needs. Over time the money they generate from their own effort helps to ensure food security, improve housing, access to healthcare, and an education for their children.

With over 97% of our loans being repaid in full, each donation you make to MicroLoan Foundation is used again and again to help more and more women for years to come.

Your donations help to build happy, healthy, thriving communities centred around successful women business owners.