More than 400 women entrepreneurs from Temeke, Dar es Salaam, will now be able to provide for their families at ease, having received interest-free loans from Vodacom Foundation through M-Pesa Women Empowerment Initiative (MWEI).
Vodacom Tanzania Communications Manager, Rukia Mtingwa (center) speaks to some women entrepreneurs in Temeke Stereo Market, Dar es Salaam, when she visited them to give interest-free loans to the women through the M-Pesa Women Empowerment Initiative (MWEI)
Vodacom Tanzania Communications Manager, Rukia Mtingwa (center) explains the process of filling in loan application forms to women entrepreneurs at Temeke Stereo Market in Dar es Salaam. Rukia had visited the women together with her colleagues to give out interest-free loans through the M-Pesa Women Empowerment Initiative (MWEI)
Vodacom Foundation Manager incharge of the M-Pesa Women Empowerment Initiative (MWEI) Grace Lyon, cross checks the records of women entrepreneurs at Temeke Stereo Market, Dar es Salaam, when she visited them at the market to give interest-free loans through the MWEI project.
Vodacom Tanzania Communications Manager, Rukia Mtingwa, looks on as Asha Omari (left) of Umoja ni Nguvu Investment Group in Temeke Stereo Market, counts her Tsh100,000 loan she received through the M-Pesa Women Empowerment Initiative (MWEI). At the center is the Group's chair person, Nikufya Mbengomwanja. Through the MWEI project, women entrepreneurs across the country receive interest-free loans to start businesses or boost existing ones and repay through the M-Pesa service.
The women who received loans worth more than Ths.30 million will now be able to start up new businesses or expand their existing ones.
Speaking while giving out the loans in Temeke Stereo Market, Grace Lyon - Manager Vodacom Foundation in charge of MWEI, said that Vodacom aims at empowering women who for a long time have been the pillars of our society
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