Dec 19, 2024 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Jesse from Nigeria stood at her small market stand, thinking about her future. Would she be able to sell enough grain to help provide for their family? Their house needed improvements to accommodate their growing family of eight children. But where would the funds...
Jun 25, 2024 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Karina* is busy sewing on her home’s front porch. She doesn’t seem to mind the hot Niger sun beating down on the metal roof overhead. She hurries to finish sewing a little girl’s dress for a customer who wants it done before the holiday tomorrow. When Karina joined a...
Apr 22, 2024 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Jairo, his wife Jennifer, and their two young children live in the remote mountainous community of La Palma, Nicaragua, which is accessible only by foot. He teaches in the community school, while most of the local people make a living through agriculture or move...
Mar 11, 2024 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
It was time to plant crops, but Christiana had no money to buy fertilizer and seeds. How could she feed her family without the produce from their farm? Her only option was to borrow money from people who often charged an excessive interest rate. Sometimes they...
Jun 27, 2023 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Jesca had a small business of peddling used clothing before she moved to Tanzania, East Africa. Two years ago, Jesca joined a SALT Savings Group in her new country. Since then, she opened her own clothing store, using savings and a loan from the savings group. Several...
