MicroFinancing Partners in Africa partnered with BUWEA in 2010 after being connected through a board member. Located in Bukoba, Tanzania, the Bukoba Women’s Empowerment Association (BUWEA) was founded in 1996 with eight members, and today includes 135 women members throughout 27 villages. BUWEA assists women to find ways to become financially self-sustaining and guides them as they organize themselves in small groups to pursue income generating activities. ...

In the summer of 2008, MPA’s Director and Founder Sr. Toni Temporiti had the privilege of meeting with Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa, who initially began the Cow Project in his Diocese of Masaka in 1993 because of his own experience of poverty as a child.  Through the diocese organization Caritas MADDO (which stands for Masaka Diocese Development Organization), families join the program in village groups and receive training to ...

In 2006, Sister Antoinette Temporiti attended a Microcredit Summit in Nova Scotia and met Muhammad Yunus and also an extraordinary woman named Ingrid Munro, the Founder of Jamii Bora.  In 1999, Ingrid, with 50 beggar women from the Kibera and Mathare slums in Nairobi, started a microfinancing cooperative called Jamii Bora. Jamii Bora has since grown to over 300,000 members and is the largest microfinancing organization in Kenya, and has its own Bank.  The keys to success are simple but critical:  Membersselect ...

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