Written by Lynn Hamerlinck on 2 July 2026
While you kept on investing via Lendahand, something beautiful happened worldwide: it brought more equal opportunities to the lives of thousands of people. Because yes, your money made a real difference in 2025 too. View our Impact Report 2025!
We tend to rely on labels to make sense of the world, and with investing it is often no different. At Lendahand, our impact labels show where your money goes and how capital translates into opportunities across different entrepreneurs, sectors, and regions.
Trees has been investing through Lendahand for years: ‘It does good for the world as well as for my wallet. Social investing is a real win-win for me!’ Find out how her investments are making positive change in emerging markets and read more about her experience with Lendahand.
Want to see the real impact of your investment with Lendahand? Find out where your money goes and which change it helps create beyond financial returns.
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.
We present the conclusions of the "Accelerating Impact" report by EVPA and GSG, the first exercise in sizing the impact investing sector in Europe.
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.
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