The Women Against Poverty Micro-Finance Program offers micro-loans to over thirty women who have organized themselves into skill-based cooperatives in a bid to improve their economic status. SEED manages and provides support to these income-generating cooperatives. These self-sustaining groups include: tie-ding, canning, tailoring, weaving, basket making, and agriculture.
SEED also manages a micro-finance program for the Amputee and War Wounded Association in Kabala. In 2007 almost all of the residents of the local amputee camp were beggars. Within one year, after receiving micro loans, no one was begging any more. They had all started small businesses: buying and selling goods, operating small shops, tailoring, or weaving. Some started their own farms. These micro-loans and income generation projects work with a small number of people in a way that contributes to development in the community at large.
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