The little money previously at her disposal would never have been enough, but a R3,000 loan from a community savings group made the work possible. Rooi is a member of one of 11 such groups in ...

Amina Rashid’s money used to slip through her fingers but when the 36-year-old mother of three joined a savings group and started contributing 2,000 Tanzanian shillings ($0.86) every week, she ...

Traditional esusu groups have long provided community-based savings and credit through rotating contributions, but today they are evolving into technology-powered financial services.

HE Dr Sann sees community-based savings groups as among the range of informal ways that people assist each other, ... The savings group repays its members every two years. At the end of the first ...