Foundation for Women in the US

The Foundation for Women changes lives through microcredit finance, and by encouraging entrepreneurship as the solution to eliminating poverty. Since 1997 FFW has positively impacted more than a million women---and their families--- by funding microcredit programs in India, Zambia, Niger, San Diego and Liberia. The Foundation for Women is currently the registered NGO (non-governmental organization) in San Diego and Liberia.

The San Diego Microcredit Program establishes loan groups in the poorest communities of the region, often those where refugee and immigrant women have settled. San Diego County has been designated by the California Department of Social Services as a "Refugee Impacted County" and is home to significant populations of refugees and immigrants from East Africa, Southeast Asia, South and Central America and Mexico. Through its partners (resettlement agencies), the Foundation for Women receives referrals for potential clients. FFW has opened several program centers including; El Cajon, Chula Vista , Spring Valley, City Heights and National City. More than 500 women have received loans of $250, $500 or $1000 with a reported 98% percent repayment rate.

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