Written by Lynn Hamerlinck on 14 June 2024
It's here: Lendahand's Impact Report 2023. The report is not just numbers; it also features various stories of entrepreneurs we supported with your investments last year.
After arriving in Tonga by sailboat, Lynn joined SPBD Tonga for a day to meet some local entrepreneurs. She documented the stories of four women who received a micro-loan for their businesses.
Writer Charity used to suffer from a constantly agonizing sore throat. “I discovered an unexpected connection between smoky kitchens and my sore throat.” Dive into her captivating story that unveils how solar solutions are empowering women, reducing the gender gap, and revolutionizing poor households.
For half a decade, Charity lived and worked in a village in Western Kenya. Even if she enjoyed many aspects of, village life, she remembers how most people, mostly women, hassled to get basic needs like water, food, and cooking fuel.
As in many other emerging countries, one of the biggest challenges for female entrepreneurs is the lack of access to finance. And this is where our local borrower U&I Microfinance comes in.
All the results of 8 years of Lendahand are featured in the first Impact Report. We've listed five of the most surprising insights from the report.
How much CO2 emissions does a solar home system avoid? Does it depend on the light bulb you use? How can the reporting on this improve? Today, Max Steenbrink shares the findings from his research with us.
Our portfolio is expanding, not only in offerings and volumes, but also geographically. We’ve listed four items about Kyrgyzstan that are of particular interest to impact investors looking to expand their impact investing portfolio.
Our team recently had the opportunity to visit one of portfolio company Redavia's clients in Kenya. We've listed 5 ways the solar farm is impacting an agri-business and local community.
Our Kenyan correspondent Charity shines a light on the challenges, opportunities, and trends that can get women-owned businesses back on their feet in 2022 and beyond.
This blog post briefly touches on what financial exclusion means and how financial inclusion can help entrepreneurship thrive.
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