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Building Financial Resilience

Supporting local groups to grow stable family incomes to meet their children's needs and create safer home environments. 

We help local groups collaborate to ensure stable family incomes, allowing them to support their children's daily needs and create safer home environments.

We do this through developing community saving initiatives, providing business training and offering small loans to help grow sustainable enterprises. 

Congolese refugee parents and teachers in Uganda form Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), improving community economies and enabling them to contribute towards small business loans, teacher pay and resources needed for the pre-school ‘cluster groups’. This reduces reliance on short term international funding and ensures refugee communities can provide Early Childhood Education for their children, long into the future.

Similar Ugandan groups are supported in Jinja and Karamoja along with a microloan scheme facilitating what we call ‘education loans’ as they have a great success rate in enabling parents to be able to provide for their children, and send them to school. Child Protection Teams also ensure regular workshops on saving for the wider community. 

In India, Women’s Self Help Groups are also trained on saving and financial resilience. Their savings provide an emergency fund for those in need, help children go to school, and ensure loans for growing enterprises. 

OUR IMPACT

105

Women's Self Help Groups in India

59

Savings & Loans Groups in Uganda

420

Community members received small business management training in Karamoja, Uganda

Meet Loru

Loru is 21 and lives with his single mother and two sisters in Kokorio, Karamoja. He never had the chance to go to school and survived by cattle rustling. When this became more violent, he concentrated on hunting wild animals to take care of his family, but struggled to make enough money. 

When Loru attended a Children on the Edge community workshop in his village, things changed. Here, people were encouraged to create vegetable gardens. Loru then attended a demonstration of sack gardening methods and immediately started growing vegetables. He now not only grows vegetables but sells them at the market, earning enough money to sustain himself and his family. 

He can now pay his sister’s school fees and buy food and clothes. From being a part of one of the major problems communities face in this area - cattle rustling - Loru is now not only part of the solution, but thriving from it. 

Your donation can help our Child Protection Teams reach more people like Loru, to create positive change for children. 
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