An Investment In Dignity and Hope

A microloan investment of $100 empowers a female entrepreneur in Africa to launch a business that will radically change the trajectory of her family! When you invest in a woman in Africa, you become a hero for her and her family. With the envelope she receives containing your $100, she also receives hope and empowerment. Your investment allows her to start a business that empowers her to pay school fees for her kids and provide food and other resources to her family.

SO HOW DOES IT WORK? Simply People raises awareness and financial support for our on-the-ground microloan partner, Feeding Nations Through Education. We pass 100 cents of every dollar raised for microloans to FNTE. FNTE provides the training and guidance to assure the success of each microloan recipient. The women entrepreneurs use their loans to start a variety of businesses, including hairdressing, farming fruits and vegetables, tailoring, running small bakeries, selling food at roadside stalls, making soap, raising chickens for eggs, among many others. Their hard work helps them support their families and grow their communities. Each new business sparks radical change in the women's lives and brings hope to family, friends, and neighbors. 

The ripple doesn't end there. 

After one year, your $100 investment empowers each entrepreneur to become a hero as she repays your investment forward to another aspiring entrepreneur; this creates an endless ripple of empowerment that grows year after year. Thanks to FNTE's efforts in the field to support the women and their businesses, every Simply People-funded entrepreneur has successfully paid their investment forward, creating a powerful ripple effect of sustainable changeFNTE has facilitated more than 1,700 successful businesses, with nearly 100% of the women paying their microloans forward after a year.

Around the world, countless lives are waiting to be transformed through simple, intentional acts of compassion. By partnering with organizations who bring sustainable change in the communities they serve,  Simply People is helping to nurture a spirit of generosity and create endless ripples of radical change—one community, one opportunity, one life at a time.