(Right) Home Based Care Givers conducting home visits
(Left)Members of SLA show off thier sewing products
The Netherlands Albert Schwitzer Foundation is a typical example of how valuable a good relationship between a donor and an implementing partner can ensure success of a project.
NASF donated $4,000 to Savings Loans Association towards a two tire program that included :
Home Based Care support for families impacted by HIV/AIDS
Small Micro Loans for poor financially insecure homes
The results have been phenomenal- raging from improved care and support for families headed by grandmothers to improved income levels at household- children's needs such as food and clothing have been provided as a result of the support of NASF therefore relieving the pain, stress and psychological trauma grandmothers feel due to the loss of their own children and now taking up such a huge responsibility of looking after thier children's children.
In the Micro credit program- small loans have transformed into big successes and therefore improve income for financially insecured homes. Almost 15 families now have benefited from NASF's grant within the SLA program catchment area. Each day, members of the families who were not able to access loans through traditional lending institutions are finding that success is possible with the help of SLA. They are using the loans to open up small shops, farming, hair salons e.t.c. The small interest they pay back to SLA is used to for creating new opportunities for others in need. This approach is creating ripples inside the local economies of poor families and therefore others benefit from the success of their friends and/ or families who are part of this program.
SLA is so grateful to NASF and hopes to scale up both programs before the end of the year with an additional grant request of $3,000 from NASF and a $2,000 grant from Color Me Inc a USA based program. A total of 15 additional members will be recruited for small micro enterprise development
NASF donated $4,000 to Savings Loans Association towards a two tire program that included :
Home Based Care support for families impacted by HIV/AIDS
Small Micro Loans for poor financially insecure homes
The results have been phenomenal- raging from improved care and support for families headed by grandmothers to improved income levels at household- children's needs such as food and clothing have been provided as a result of the support of NASF therefore relieving the pain, stress and psychological trauma grandmothers feel due to the loss of their own children and now taking up such a huge responsibility of looking after thier children's children.
In the Micro credit program- small loans have transformed into big successes and therefore improve income for financially insecured homes. Almost 15 families now have benefited from NASF's grant within the SLA program catchment area. Each day, members of the families who were not able to access loans through traditional lending institutions are finding that success is possible with the help of SLA. They are using the loans to open up small shops, farming, hair salons e.t.c. The small interest they pay back to SLA is used to for creating new opportunities for others in need. This approach is creating ripples inside the local economies of poor families and therefore others benefit from the success of their friends and/ or families who are part of this program.
SLA is so grateful to NASF and hopes to scale up both programs before the end of the year with an additional grant request of $3,000 from NASF and a $2,000 grant from Color Me Inc a USA based program. A total of 15 additional members will be recruited for small micro enterprise development
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