Our Work
Our goal at SustainMe is to lift vulnerable women and their families out of poverty. We achieve our goal through Microfinance, Economic Empowerment, Healthcare and Nutrition to list just a few examples.
Finance
Skills
Empowerment
Through our microfinance program, SustainMe provides vulnerable women with small startup loans and seed grants which enable them to start up small businesses and income-generating activities.
Access to microfinance provides sustainable solutions and livelihoods for the women and their families. By providing women with access to finances through microfinancing, we help build their capacity to provide basic needs for their children and break the cycle of poverty.
Our Microfinance model is simple, friendly and sustainable. It offers every struggling woman an opportunity to access finances for a startup through micro loans, seed grants, and village banking. It has consistently proven to increase household incomes, social capital, and hope.
SustainMe focuses on economically strengthening women and families through skills, mentorship, and the creation of sustainable livelihoods. Business training, vocational skills and mentorship are advanced to help vulnerable women start income generating activities, earn an income and provide for their families.
A combination of skills is key in creating an environment in which the women can start and run their sustainable livelihoods. As an organization, we empower women with a wide range of skills including business and vocational skills.
Through training, our organisation provides long-term solutions to empowering women to run sustainable businesses. Our toolbox consists of experienced trainers and their knowledge, and our locally developed training manuals.
Through mentorship, we take the women and their families on a journey towards success, helping them on every step of the way. We focus on one-to-one mentorship where every woman is supported to ensure her business model is understood, her business is growing, and that she can care for her children.
Health and Nutrition is a very important aspect of the family’s well-being and success. Poor health has adverse effects on the performance of the women and their families. It often ends up reducing household income since more family savings have to be spent on medical care.
SustainMe provides the women and their families with basic healthcare, preventive information, and nutrition support. This includes medical treatment for the women and children, sensitization and health awareness, nutritional classes and supplements, hygiene, and sanitation.
We believe that families that are healthy can grow their livelihoods and in the long run improve on their household incomes.
Family and Social Strengthening
Many poor families in the communities where work struggle to find a meal and therefore sometimes have go without a meal. A family without a meal cannot engage into development programs.
Family and Social Strengthening empowers families to be food secured through vegetable gardening and Share a Meal. Families are engaged into growing vegetables for food and fight hunger.
Additionally, SustainMe supports families in dire need of a meal. A meal strengthens the family allowing it to be enrolled into our empowerment programs that skills them to work their way out of poverty.
