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Lendwithcare: Our Objectives

Lendwithcare is an initiative that provides microloans to help vulnerable microentrepreneurs, mainly women, in developing countries grow their businesses and improve their lives. It operates as a 4-party partnership between microentrepreneurs, microfinance institutions in developing countries, individual lenders from developed countries, and CARE which manages the crowdfunding platform. Lendwithcare has disbursed over $30 million in loans to over 52,000 lenders, financing over 94,000 microentrepreneurs and creating over 19,000 jobs across 11 developing countries. In Peru, it works with microfinance institutions to provide loans to microentrepreneurs, with its portfolio split between the regions of Tumbes

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Lendwithcare: Our Objectives

Lendwithcare is an initiative that provides microloans to help vulnerable microentrepreneurs, mainly women, in developing countries grow their businesses and improve their lives. It operates as a 4-party partnership between microentrepreneurs, microfinance institutions in developing countries, individual lenders from developed countries, and CARE which manages the crowdfunding platform. Lendwithcare has disbursed over $30 million in loans to over 52,000 lenders, financing over 94,000 microentrepreneurs and creating over 19,000 jobs across 11 developing countries. In Peru, it works with microfinance institutions to provide loans to microentrepreneurs, with its portfolio split between the regions of Tumbes

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LENDWITHCARE:

MAKE A LOAN, CHANGE A LIFE

In a country where:

Only Only

42 2 . 14 7 .

of people have an of people have borrowed


account in a financial money from a financial
institution* institution*

Only

34 0 . 50 6 .
of women of men

have an account in a financial institution, making Peru the second country in


Latin America and the Caribbean with the largest financial gender gap*

Only 5% of microenterprises
participate in the formal
financial system, although they
account for 95% of the country’s
companies.**

Microentrepreneurs need to have access to


financial services to develop their businesses
and improve their lives.

*Source: Global Findex 2017 / **Source: PRODUCE 2016

That’s why Lendwithcare,


CARE UK’s crowdfunding microfinance
initiative, started working in Peru

OUR OBJECTIVES:

Support vulnerable microentrepreneurs, mainly


women, by giving them access to capital, providing them with
training and technical assistance, and connecting their
businesses with potential commercial partners.

Develop and strengthen the capacities of allied


local microfinance institutions (MFIs), so they can
provide inclusive and sustainable financial services to
microentrepreneurs at the base of the pyramid (BOP).

:
a 4-party
PARTNERSHIP

Microfinance
Lenders Microentrepreneurs
Institutions (MFIs)

Microentrepreneurs: Lenders:
BOP business men and women citizens and organizations from
who live in developing the UK that support BOP
countries and need capital to microentrepreneurs from developing
grow their businesses and countries by lending them money
improve their lives. (from £15 and up) to boost
their businesses.

MFIs: CARE:
developing countries’ financial international humanitarian agency that
organizations that are manages Lendwithcare crowdfunding
committed to the financial microfinance initiative, which connects
inclusion of BOP BOP microentrepreneurs in developing
microentrepreneurs. countries through partnerships with
local MFIs.

in the
WORLD

More than More than More than

$ 30M 52K 94K


disbursed lenders microentrepreneurs
in loans financed

More than Partnerships with

19K 80 13
jobs created of financed MFIs
microentrepreneurs are women

Presence in 11 countries:

AFRICA: ASIA:
Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Philippines, Vietnam,
Zimbabwe Cambodia, Pakistan

MIDDLE EAST: LATIN AMERICA:


Palestinian territories Ecuador, Peru

Our portfolio of
Peruvian microentrepreneurs*

TUMBES

24%

PIURA

38% LA LIBERTAD

38%

*The program can be implemented in any region of Peru.

How to be part
of Lendwithcare?
We are looking for partners to help us improve and grow the program
in Peru, so that we can support more BOP microentrepreneurs. You can
help us in any of the following fields:

1
INNOVATION
6
TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE 2
ACADEMIC
RESEARCH

5
FINANCING
3
NETWORKING

4
COMMERCIAL
PARTNERSHIP

CONTACT US!
Call us: 4171126 Ext. 1159 | Send us a message: [email protected]
LENDWITHCARE.ORG
Find us @careenperu on:

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