The Women’s Small Business Initiative (WSBI) provides business training and financing to help women build self-sustaining businesses to increase income and achieve financial independence. It includes:
- Business training using the Street Business School curriculum
- Collateral-free zero interest loans to start or scale up a business
- Grants in the form of livelihood assets to help sustain a business
- Ongoing coaching
- Some loans are partially forgivable if funding is adequate
We train women to sew, make detergents, soaps, perfumes, and handicrafts. Some own stores, but the aim is to scale up to increase income to meet need and escape poverty.