The Micro Enterprize Development (MED) project goal is to improve individual and family well being in the 3 counties of Greater Yei (Yei River, Lainya and Morobo), through the learning and benefits derived from participation in group savings and loan associations (VSLAs).
This will involve improving financial management and credit access for 3000 VSLA members and their households in Greater Yei. This is being achieved through the formation of around 48 more groups and the selection of 16 from the current facilitators to receive further training and to take on more responsibilities.
ORAF has been funding this project for over 12 months and already the benefits of the project are clear as our partner agency, ACROSS, shows us in this feedback
“The Morebongo women group management committee members being helped by MED trainer Mr. Joseph Mawa to calculate and audit their funds for share out. Mrs. Abawu Hellen (in red blouse on right) purchased a sewing machine with her first dividends realised from the group and established her self and now says she is able to pay school fees of her two daughters. The first daughter has joined Senior one and second daughter is in primary seven.
Hellen says this programme has given her hope of educating her three children who were abandoned by their father ten years ago. She was not even sure if their father was alive (though she hears that he is) but since never showed up to check on his children this was enough to tell her that he was dead.
According to Hellen she never got married again for fear of being neglected again. Throughout her single life she was puzzled on how to educate her children, but the MED programme has come to her aid. With the trainings she continues to get from MED she now has a future for her children and will pass this knowledge to her children through investing on them in education and telling them how beneficial it is to be self-reliant.”
This will involve improving financial management and credit access for 3000 VSLA members and their households in Greater Yei. This is being achieved through the formation of around 48 more groups and the selection of 16 from the current facilitators to receive further training and to take on more responsibilities.
ORAF has been funding this project for over 12 months and already the benefits of the project are clear as our partner agency, ACROSS, shows us in this feedback
“The Morebongo women group management committee members being helped by MED trainer Mr. Joseph Mawa to calculate and audit their funds for share out. Mrs. Abawu Hellen (in red blouse on right) purchased a sewing machine with her first dividends realised from the group and established her self and now says she is able to pay school fees of her two daughters. The first daughter has joined Senior one and second daughter is in primary seven.
Hellen says this programme has given her hope of educating her three children who were abandoned by their father ten years ago. She was not even sure if their father was alive (though she hears that he is) but since never showed up to check on his children this was enough to tell her that he was dead.
According to Hellen she never got married again for fear of being neglected again. Throughout her single life she was puzzled on how to educate her children, but the MED programme has come to her aid. With the trainings she continues to get from MED she now has a future for her children and will pass this knowledge to her children through investing on them in education and telling them how beneficial it is to be self-reliant.”
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