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Ghana: Savings and loans scheme economically empowers rural women

In her early thirties, Zainab Amadu for the past two years has been running a beads making business in Kenyase, Ghana’s Ahafo region. She also operates a mobile money transfer business, multiplying her source of livelihood. Initially though Zainab struggled to put herself to work due to lack of access to capital. The banks won’t give her loan since she… Read More

Somehow surviving: A story of chronic need, hope and despair

By Sulah Nuwamanya-Partnership Development and Communications Manager for Actionaid Rwanda Rwanda (Kigali) Bernadite Nyitogwiza of Muganza Village in Muganza Sector, Gisagara District, Southern Province has survived to the age of 88 despite a life of permanent challenge to meet her basic needs and those of her family. Born in 1923 in the same community where she now lives, she and… Read More