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Chain reaction: How an intervention led to women helping women in Wassa IDP Camp

Lama Queen Godoz

June 13, 2022 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

Grants for women living in refugee camps have helped recipients start businesses and learn new skills, allowing them to improve their quality of life. Additionally, the women created an informal cooperative and take turns investing a percentage of proceeds from each successful business into another member’s business.

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Restoring hope to adolescent mothers through savings schemes

John Mugisha

February 02, 2022 |

Rwanda News Agency |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Bugesera District

A group of young, single mothers is supporting each other through a savings group that provides loans to its members. Participants can take out loans to buy livestock, invest in business ventures, or learn new skills. The informal loan network is a form of mutual aid and is a means of improving their financial situation.

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Turkey Bets on Green Card

Sevilay Nur Saraçlar

January 25, 2022 |

Inside Turkey |

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Response Location: Turkey, Antalya

A program in Turkey allows residents to recycle its waste, and in return, receive points that can be used to pay for goods or be withdrawn as cash from an ATM. When the Green Neighbor Card program launched in 2016, the first month saw residents turning in over 8,700 kilograms of waste. By 2020, it has grown to 200,000 kilograms a month. Some say the program has some flaws, but residents have earned 5.3 million liras since the program began.

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Training Mothers On Nutrition Is Saving Lives Of Children

George Kalisa

November 23, 2021 |

Rwanda Dispatch |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kayonza District

To address community malnutrition, 22 mothers began a savings and credit cooperative, which has since grown to 59 members. An elected committee looks for the most nutritionally vulnerable members, who are eligible for a small interest-free loan to improve the nutrition of their families. The women pay a membership fee and when loans are repaid, the cooperative gets a small percentage of the profits, which can be paid in installments until the whole amount is repaid. The group’s savings has also helped them buy animals that provide nutritious food products and organic fertilizers for their crops.

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Nyamagabe: With a fund from Government of more than Rwf 1.2 billion for this year, stunting is being reduced

André Gakwaya

June 11, 2021 |

Rwanda News Agency |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Nyamagabe

A comprehensive initiative to reduce stunting in children caused by malnutrition and poverty is seeing positive results in Rwanda. The government has provided food, frequent health assessments, and has also encouraged families to plant vegetable gardens.

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Sew it goes: The Sewing Machine Project stitches lives back together

Richard Mertens

June 03, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

The Sewing Machine Project has helped thousands of people who rely on sewing as a livelihood. The organization refurbishes used sewing machines and sends them across the world. For some recipients, access to their own sewing machine can result in economic mobility and an improved quality of life.

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Finance: How thrift collectors are rescuing low income earners

Ibadan Sola Adeyemo

May 26, 2021 |

New Telegraph |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The practice of “Esusu” serves to provide a way of saving money for those who do not have access to bank accounts. In this system, each contributor agrees to save a set amount for a limited amount of time and “withdraws” their savings at the end of that time period, paying a small fee to the collector. This informal banking practice is a flourishing business in Nigeria.

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Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives

Richard Kenny

April 20, 2021 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Zambia

Onyx Connect sprang from the imagination of one entrepreneur who saw how poor roads and poverty made bicycles the only practical alternative to walking great distances in southern Zambia. Onyx sells sturdy bikes with a monthly payment plan that makes them affordable but also gives bike owners a personal stake in maintaining their own investment, instead of just having it donated to them. Bikes have given girls greater access to education and farmers more income because they can deliver fresh milk or other goods more often, more quickly, at greater distances than before.

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Susu as a Vehicle to Advance Economic Mobility

Nana AmaAddo

March 19, 2021 |

FunTimes Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

A traditional African method of mutual aid, Susu, is helping members of the African Diaspora access capital for businesses, education, housing, and more. The informal loan network enables people to contribute periodically to a group fund with each contributor taking turns receiving the collected money. The informal loan club is a centuries-old African tradition that serves as a security net and can also provide economic mobility.

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What Can Biden's Plan Do for Poverty? Look to Bangladesh.

Nicholas Kristof

March 10, 2021 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh

Bangladesh has made huge strides in reducing poverty by investing in women experiencing the most economic hardships. As a result, children have lower rates of malnutrition, fewer child marriages, higher rates of completing elementary school, and women have more job opportunities. Over the course of 15 years, 25 million Bangladeshis have been able to break out of poverty. Progress in Bangladesh is a model of success that could be possible in America with Biden's American Rescue Plan which has provisions that would mitigate childhood poverty in America.

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