Microenterprise Project


Women from Nyamuswa and the surrounding communities organized themselves into women’s groups and came to Malaika Project requesting small loans for business. They designed business plans from small animal husbandry and tailoring to small general stores in order to earn money to send their children to school and cover health costs and improve their quality of life. 

They each contributed financially towards a central fund and have designed a microfinance project in which each one of five women in each women’s group receive a $50 loan with group responsibility for repayment. They meet each week to pay a portion towards repayment, a portion towards savings, and they keep a portion for themselves.  Not only is this project impacting individual women’s lives and their families. The microfinance project is empowering women to improve the economy of their entire village. 

150 women have already been granted loans and every one is making on time payments. 100 more women have made their business plans and are waiting for their loans. Please help us by making a contribution!

Here are the words of some of the women we are helping with the Malaika Project Microfinance Program (translated from Swahili):




Name: Prisca Webiro Simburya
Village: Makongoro

I am a seamstress.  The loan from Malaika Project made it possible for me to start a business of sewing and selling clothing.  I have also been able to rent 2 sewing machines and now I am teaching girls how to sew without any fee because they are the children of destitute families.  I have been participating in the savings program and because I am saving money every week, this savings will help me in the future to pay school fees for the students.




Name: Susana Mbizo Magembe
Village: Sanzate

The loan from you has enabled me to set up my work without a problem.  I expect to expand my business so that I can climb out of poverty.




Name: Zawadi Erasto Mashauri
Village: Sarawe

I was living with a lot of problems because I had no place to get money to run a business.  The loan from Malaika Project enabled me to start my own business and now I can take care of my family.  Also now I can pay for my children’s school fees.