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Burundian Girls Gain access to financial literacy information
Organization:
CARE International and Microfinance Opportunities
Category:
NGOs using radios
Country:
Burundi
Project Dates:
2008
Subject:
As Burundian women receive only 1.9 per cent of loans made by commercial banks, the Ishaka project helps girls who live in households and are heads of households to access safe savings and financial resources.
Powered by either wind-up human energy or solar power, the Lifeline radio is designed specifically to connect people in remote communities to the information network. Constructed to operate in the harshest of conditions and climates, the Lifeline radio is rugged, colorful, easy to use and carry, receives excellent AM, FM, and two shortwave frequencies and plays for many hours non-stop. It is available to aid and donor organizations for developmental and humanitarian initiatives.
Results:
The project – initiated in 2008 – has empowered over 6,178 poverty stricken girls from the ages of 14 to 22 in peri-urban and rural provinces of Bujumbura and Gitega.
