In our region, disadvantaged people, mostly women, face significant barriers to growing their businesses and livelihoods. Underserved by local financial institutions, they are excluded from the formal economy. They are unable to access ethical finance and do not have the training to build their business and take control of their livelihoods. With the growing cost of living adding more difficulties, now is the time to remove barriers for women building business.

Your donations to our Nepal appeal will help bring financial support and education to people struggling from the economic impacts of the covid pandemic.

Confidence building and specialist skills training are key to the inclusion of people with a disability into the economy.

Our trainers in Nepal won’t let a long journey by foot stop them from delivering our financial education programs.

If you have ever read an article on community development or microfinance, you will recognise the terms ‘financial capability development’ and ‘financial education’. Often used interchangeably, these terms represent very different concepts.

Disability is a cause and a consequence of poverty. This means, if you are living with a disability, you are more likely to live in poverty, and if you live in poverty you are more likely to develop a disability. But the cycle between disability and poverty can be broken.

If you had been told your entire life that you were incapable of doing something, you had never seen anyone else like you do it, and you had never been given the opportunity to try it - would you believe that you were able to?

Our newest financial education coaches have learnt how to share skills with their local community - and made sure they had fun along the way.

Padma is one of the CAFE program participants in Nepal, who learned how to take control of her finances. An unexpected benefit of financial capability training for Padma was that she learnt how to adopt a healthier diet!