Apart from becoming a lender, what can people do to support your organisation?
Since 100 percent of the loans made through Lendwithcare go to the entrepreneurs we have very little marketing budget and therefore need to find a way of telling people about Lendwithcare.org through word of mouth. We encourage all of our lenders to talk about Lendwithcare with friends and family and if they use Facebook or Twitter to visit and like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/lendwithcare or tweet using our @lendwithcare address.
As an organisation, CARE International UK has a number of ‘How you can help’ options, which can be found on our website http://www.careinternational.org.uk/how-you-can-help and regular Challenge activities that raise funds and awareness through enjoyable and often exhilarating events. In March this year for example, the CARE team are challenging people to walk 10,000 steps a day for one week as part of their Walk in her Shoes campaign for more information.
Photo credits:
1. CARE/Jon Spaull.
2 & 3. CARE/Emilie Bailey
Article comments
1 - Clavos
Thank you, Mandy, for a most excellent and well written article.
Microfinance first caught my attention several years ago; it is becoming an important tool in aiding not only the microentrepreneurs it targets, but is contributing to significant improvement in their countries as well.
Microfinance is that most desirable of business efforts: a win-win for all involved.
2 - Christopher Rose
I totally agree.
An element of the business/survival plan I'm implementing involves a microfinance idea I want to implement, hopefully within the next year or three.
3 - Mandy Southgate
Thank you for your kind comment Clavos. I am afraid I only came up with all the questions! Credit must go to Doctor Khan for taking the time to give such clear and informative answers. As he mentioned, there is little money left over in their budget for advertising so he is a real asset to the organisation.
Christopher, your idea sounds interesting to say the least!
4 - Christopher Rose
Hi Mandy,
Without giving away too much, my idea would simultaneously make people's dreams come true and provide literally endless amounts of funds for microfinance to those of the world's poor that need just a little help to help themselves.
I am too busy trying to survive economically and too limited in resources such as legal advice and technical knowledge to implement it but hope to start work on it once the first of those two points has made sufficient progress.