Unlock Financial Inclusion
This gift could help establish a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA), a community-based microfinance model that enables people to save money, access small loans, and build financial resilience.
With this gift, you could provide a community with the tools and training needed to create a VSLA, including financial management capacity building and basic life skills lessons.
This gift will allow families to achieve more - renting land, buying homes, getting medical care, or buying school uniforms. By pooling their savings and self-managing loan distributions, VSLAs help their members - and their entire community - sustainably achieve economic stability.
This gift helps support our Livelihoods programme, empowering people earn income, and provide for their families with dignity.
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Pictured here, the meeting of Majehun VSLA in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone.
Communities in Sierra Leone are still recovering from a decade of war, and are experiencing new challenges in the face of climate change – including natural disasters like drought, flooding, and landslides that are increasing in both frequency and magnitude.
Now, in Tonkolili, VSLA members have renewed hope, with the ability to achieve economic stability, start or expand small businesses, and invest in their families’ futures.
Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide.