Microcredit

PWRDF and Diocese of Masasi: a 20-year success story

June 13, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Africa Stories, Featured, Food Security Stories, Health, Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Microcredit, Newborn and Child Health, Tanzania Stories, Uncategorized

Farmer and community leader Joyce Mtauka.

In May, Anglican Journal staff writer André Forget travelled with a delegation of PWRDF volunteers to Tanzania, to see first-hand the impact of 20 years […]

International Women’s Day March 8

March 8, 2017 | By Janice Biehn

Maternal, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Microcredit, Newborn and Child Health, Refugees and Migrants Stories, Uncategorized, Water Stories, Women Stories, Youth Stories

PWRDF is committed to gender equality, #5 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Check out some of our success stories of women making a […]

Empowering Women: A Key to Success

March 8, 2016 | By Simon Chambers

Asia Pacific Stories, India, Microcredit, Refugees and Migrants Stories, Sri Lanka, Stories by Region, Stories by Theme, Women Stories

Members of an OfERR supported Self-Help Group in Sri Lanka work together in a milk collective, pooling their milk and getting a better rate from the merchants who buy the milk. Photo: Simon Chambers

The Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR) is an organization of Tamil refugees supporting Tamil refugees both in India and those who have and continue […]

The $25,000 Question

July 21, 2014 | By Simon Chambers

Canadian Indigenous Stories, Microcredit, Mozambique Stories, Stories by Region

A cheque repaying a $25,000 loan from PWRDF to the Caixa Nampula. Photo: Simon Chambers

In 1999, PWRDF gave a grant of $50,000 to the Two Rivers Community Development Centre (TRCDC) in Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas […]