Tuweereza Eden Ministries (TEMI) uses a self-help group approach to empower women to start small businesses and provide for their own families. The Women Self Help Loan recurring program aims to give a one-time capital investment to 10 Self Help Women Groups and each group with 10 cooperative self-help members. Each woman who is a member of the SHG has a family to support with more than three dependants (Children) to help with paying the fees for education and in meeting all the basic necessities in life. The targeted beneficiaries are mainly Women living in extreme poverty (surviving on less than USD $1 per day) and they are living in the destitute communities of Uganda. Currently we have a registration of more than 1200 women in the two districts namely Namutumba and Buyende and have already joined the program.
We are providing women, and school dropout adult girls with vital financial skills that can help them to build and start small profit making business. We are also providing trainings, and financial literacy. We are mentoring them with basic skills needed in sustainable business development and this is through “Self Help Loan recurring initiative”. The concept of this program is that once a family unit is firm and empowered economically, we encourage them to help other families who are like once they were, before the hope of God. Eden Women Self Help Loan Program will not educate the women’s children, dig wells or provide food. This is a proposed for a one-time investment (i) USD$100 per a woman or (ii) USD$1,000 per SHG of 10 Women or a Grand total of (iii) USD $10,000 for 10 Self Help Groups (SHGs) of 1000 Women in the poor African community. The program WILL provide personal development and vocational training, community meetings to ensure community support, entrepreneurship, and mentoring and small group support.
The loan recurring Self Help Loan Program is targeting to support a bigger number starting with 100 poorest Women and each one with a starting capital of USD $100 with no interests attached and repayment period will be eight months. This is indeed the foundation stone for the rural poor women to establish individual and group businesses that will allow each woman in the SHG to take care of their own family and community needs. We are seeking for a Grant support of USD$10,000 to kick-starting the sustainable Self Help program.

Families participating in business start-up training program