FINCA’s mission is to alleviate poverty through lasting solutions that provide people with the capital and life-changing products and services they need to build a brighter future. Our vision is to create a global network of social enterprises that improves lives worldwide through sustainable solutions to poverty.
Around the world, billions of people survive on just a few dollars per day. During times of crisis, handouts are a necessary tool to help people to get through. But aid is not designed to deliver lasting change.
At FINCA, we believe that the solution to poverty requires using the market to provide a hand up instead of a handout. And we see endless possibility. By listening to people in poverty and understanding their needs, we are fulfilling a wide-range of demands the market has failed to meet. Our mission-driven social enterprises are giving some of the world’s poorest communities a viable pathway to improve their lives.
Our Work
We only support social enterprises delivering quality goods and services people need at a price they can afford. Our market-driven approach recognizes that poverty is multidimensional. No single solution can eradicate poverty on its own, so we invest in enterprises that offer interconnected, sustainable solutions. Our partners provide clean water and clean energy, affordable and accessible healthcare, high-quality and low-cost financial services, and much, much more.
Stories of Resilience
With a small loan from FINCA, Agnes Chitsotso turned her tiny business into a thriving one that now supports her children and grandchildren.
Angelina, FINCA Zambia education entrepreneur, used her first loan to purchase school supplies for her pupils. Subsequent loans have allowed Angelina to purchase furniture and open a shop nearby.
With no income of her own, Joyce, along with her two teen-aged children and her elderly parents, faced a bleak future of hunger and homelessness. Determined to protect her family, Joyce took out a loan of $121 and started a small used clothing business.
On her own for 18 years since her husband died, 62-year old Consuelo Esperanza Rueda Aguilar runs several businesses that she has built with hard work and by carefully investing her earnings.
Victoria Mbewe is a rural farmer. She has drastically increased her crop yields and income thanks to FINCA Ventures partner company, Good Nature Agro.
With no income of her own, Joyce, along with her two teen-aged children and her elderly parents, faced a bleak future of hunger and homelessness. Determined to protect her family, Joyce took out a loan of $121 and started a small used clothing business.
Thanks to the help of FINCA’s microfinance loans, Betty Nakintu could create the school of her dreams in Kampala, Uganda.
FINCA is a catalyst for economic inclusion for the poor. With your support, we are able to help millions of hard-working people gain access to much-needed financial services and life-changing products that improve their quality of life and help them achieve their dreams.