Empowering rural communities through microfinance

SEDA is using microfinance and business development to empower small communities and individuals, enabling them to generate income, utilize their natural resources in an environmentally sound manner and create lasting financial independence.

Bread for the World Training

Bread for the World Training

All villages in Laos have a Village Committee. Most villages in Laos have a Village Bank run by the Village Committee. These provide micro-finance to villagers, some more successfully than others. SEDA plans to strengthen selected village banks as a source of micro-finance through training, support and monitoring. SEDA will hold workshops for villagers on managing their finances, book keeping, developing business plans and savings plans. When resources permit, SEDA plans to establish a microfinance bank modeled on the Grameen Bank, which has had tremendous success with microfinance in Bangladesh.

Please support SEDA’s projects via Global Giving:

Lao Weaving Artisans Micro Credit Project
Micro-Credit for Disadvantaged Farmers