Suma Pun (28) lives with her husband and child. Her husband is 60 years old and unable to support his family. Suma joined the My Business My Freedom program and with her first microloan, purchased a sewing machine to make clothes to sell. Her small business started to grow quickly as the quality of her work spread. She successfully paid back her first loan and took out her second microloan to purchase extra fabric and an interlocking machine to make her clothes even more professional.
Because of the countrywide lockdown, Suma’s business suffered with no customers. She struggled to provide food for her family. Suma was one of 30 My Business My Freedom women who received a month’s supply of food to help them through this crisis.
All microloan repayments have been suspended until the crisis is over. Now that the lockdown restrictions are starting to lift in Nepal, Suma is very keen to open her business again and start generating income to continue repaying her microloan and being able to
support her family.
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Help stabilize a Nepali woman with a small business loan. Your donation of US$200 will help prevent her and her children from becoming victims of human trafficking. Click on the links below.
Our Partners
Captivating Village Project is our newest project and is all about educating girls and empowering communities in remote Nepal.
So far, 151 girls are back in school. These girls were not in school because of poverty, or families not seeing the importance of girls’ education but rather getting them married at young...
29 SHARES
Meet Nina, a hardworking wife and mother of four who owns a small sari-sari store up in the mountains. She joined our Microfinance program in the Philippines in 2021. Then, with the loan that she availed from us, she added cold drinks and rice grain to her store.
With this, she was...
35 SHARES
Deanna was one of the working mothers who was hit hard by the COVID pandemic. She was unable to continue with her former work so she needed a new source of income. Raising her adopted son on her own, it is important that her transition would succeed.
With her savings, she...
65 SHARES
We are proud to announce that 27 students from the first class, 25 from the second class, and 23 from the third class, graduated from the 2022 Embroidery Training in our My First Job program last month (July).
This training not only opened up a new way for women in these villages to...
65 SHARES
We're excited to announce that interviews will soon commence to select the next 30 lucky women who will be part of our fifth annual Husky Tailoring Program.
Every year, Husky Energy (now a part of the Cenovus group of companies) makes it possible for women from remote locations in Qinghai Province to...
12 SHARES
Through our Microfinance Program in the Philippines, we are able to empower more mothers by helping them start their small businesses that can support their families. Here are just some of the beaming faces of the proud Filipina moms and their amazing business endeavors:
Read the full article...65 SHARES
