SMEFUNDS is an International Non Profit Organization fighting to end poverty through the promotion of sustainable enterprise development in Africa. SMEFUNDS promotes the one-on-one lending approach thereby encouraging organizations, individuals and social investors around the world to engage in this proactive approach to help the working poor start up a profitable small business thereby using micro-lending to lift them out of poverty.

Led by a proactive team of social entrepreneurs, SMEFUNDS promotes the creation of sustainable new small business ventures. Entrepreneurs use small loan to buy new products, increase their sales, or expand an existing enterprise. We have partnered with carefully selected business partners (MFIs) all over, thereby making reach and accessibility to be seamless and hassle free. Every amount received via SMEFUNDS.com gets to the entrepreneurs that the loan is intended for.
 

Our Strategy

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You are able to provide a small loan to an illiterate, extremely poor woman with a late husband, no loan history and nothing of economic value to her name, children are dropped out of school …

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Our Agenda at SMEFUNDS are simple and obvious;

1. Empower Entrepreneurs through capacity building; Create strategies and tools for sustainable growth. look after the training and information needs of the disadvantaged sections of the economy, especially in rural and underdeveloped areas; conduct trade- specific entrepreneurship development programs for the benefit of educated unemployed; provide follow up escort services to facilitate the trainees to set up their own small business projects with confidence and requisite managerial competence and capability; and provide counselling and consultancy services.

2. We raise debt equity inform of small business loan for our partners (MFIs) working in the local regions to further support our entrepreneurs with the required funding need. By providing the fund required starting, expanding or growing a small business; entrepreneurs are able to work diligently by lifting themselves out of poverty.

3. Organise a social network groups among SMEs as (SHG) - self Help Groups. Our series of business education programs gives guidance on how to start up a business. Throughout the regions, we help members identify and find solutions to issues, challenges and problems in their own business ventures. Other members are great inspirations to one another in a friendly supportive ways, members makes it possible to explore wider reach for business success.