Lend with Care
Since 2013, our club has been selecting and supporting small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries by contributing to loans to help them to continue and expand their businesses.
The businesses we are supporting are in Ecuador, Cambodia, Rwanda, Peru, Vietnam, Pakistan, Zambia, Malawi, Georgia and the Philippines and they have included farming, shop-keeping, retail, animal and poultry raising and shoe-making.
2023 will be our tenth anniversary as we started making loans in 2013. The following statistics speak for themselves about the help we have been able to give so far and which we feel proud to have achieved for a modest financial output by our Rotary club.
Number of loans made: 124, totalling £5,555
Entrepreneurs helped: 351
Family members helped: 1,102
Jobs created: 426
Number of people helped 1,879
We have been able to do this via Lendwithcare, part of CARE International UK, a registered charity and a member of the CARE International confederation, one of the world’s leading aid and development organisations. It fights poverty and injustice in 87 countries around the world to help the world’s poorest people find routes out of poverty.
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