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More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Clintonville Rotary invests in people via Kiva, an international nonprofit with the mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
The Clintonville Rotary team carries out service projects that enhance economic and community development and create opportunities for decent and productive work for young and old. We also strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities. (This aligns well with our mission and with Rotary International's areas of focus.)
Where we focus our lending:
Where we focus our lending:
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Services
Growing businesses
These are just A FEW stories of many; People we have assisted financially through Kiva:
These are just A FEW stories of many; People we have assisted financially through Kiva:
Christelle is a customer of the Hekima MFI and chair of the "Ndarikana" village group. She is a 38-year-old widow and mother of five children who are all in school.
She is a food seller, having started this business nine years ago with start-up funds received from her late husband.
She would like her children to continue studying and she would like to feed her family.
A loan helped Christelle to stock up on five bags of beans, which will build on her initial capital.
A loan helped Christelle to stock up on five bags of beans, which will build on her initial capital.
Christelle is very happy because with this loan she supplied her goods, she increased her profits, she enormously improved the health and quality of life of her family, she also paid school fees for her children. Without this help, he would never have achieved his urgent plans. She would like to thank HEKIMA and its partners who continue to come to their aid especially during this difficult period of global crisis linked to covid-19.
Posted by Ndarikana Group from Goma, North Kivu province, Congo (DRC) Mar 11, 2022
Penina has a farm where she grows crops and raises livestock. She also earns some income from a personal business. She never had a formal education and is content with the farming lifestyle.
Being a woman and accessing funds in Kenya, especially around her village, is very challenging… Her biggest dreams are to become independent and support her family by herself, to secure her children’s future and to buy a home.
A loan helped to buy high-quality seeds and good fertilizer to improve her crop production. Access to modern, quality farm inputs is the pillar of an agricultural revolution.
However, in Kenya, a developing country, fertilizers and seed allocation by the government is way below the needs of farmers.
Maurine lives in Nandi, Kenya. As many farmers in her region, she used to buy firewood to power her farm, but this has become a problem; now trees are scarce, making it even more difficult for farmers to have affordable access to energy.
Maurine plans to use a Sistema Biobolsa biodigester to eliminate wood, fossil fuels and chemical fertilizers from her farm. With her 12-cubic-meter Sistema Biobolsa, she will transform her cows' manure into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. She and her family will be able to cook without smoke and stop spending time in chopping wood. Maurine’s family will also increase her vegetable productivity with the organic fertilizer that the biodigester will produce and give back to the soil the nutrients needed to reforest Nandi.
A loan of $875 helps to purchase a biodigester to power her farm with biogas and stop cutting trees.
A loan of $875 helps to purchase a biodigester to power her farm with biogas and stop cutting trees.
…saves farmers money by transforming waste into biogas and organic fertilizer.
…saves farmers money by transforming waste into biogas and organic fertilizer.
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