Masikini Maureen
Masikini Maureen is a 45-year-old widow who lives in Mwakhoza, Zambia with her five children. She is a member and secretary of the Titandizane group in Malawi. Titandizane means ‘let’s help each ...
Success Stories
Rose Nyirenda
Rose Nyirenda is one of MicroLoan’s entrepreneurs. She runs a grocery shop in a village outside of Kasungu, in central Malawi, and has been with MicroLoan Foundation for over 2 years. In this time ...
Mercy Banda
Mercy Banda is 25 years old and lives in a poor settlement near Nkhotakota, a trading station on the shores of Lake Malawi. Like most people in the village, Mercy had no schooling to speak of ...
Maretha’s maize
Maretha Steven is the secretary of the Alinafe group in Tchawale, Malawi, a MicroLoan group of three local female business owners. She has five children under the age of 21 and is newly married to a ...
Loveness
Many women who live in the rural villages of Africa have little hope for the future because of poor living conditions and prospects. Over the past 15 years, we have helped over 150,000 women, and more...
See where Enala Banda from the BBC Lifeline appeal is now
When Deborah Meaden met Enala in 2015, she had received two loans from MicroLoan Foundation and had managed to set up a small business selling tomatoes and fish. Enala spoke of the dramatic change the...