Issue Area: Informal Economy

Western Microcredit Society (WMS) Western’s Microcredit Society is a club driven to help alleviate global poverty by raising funds and awareness among students about the power of microcredit. This revolutionary method of giving micro-loans to credible entrepreneurs is an effective way to help others help themselves break the line-of-poverty. All proceeds …

Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy through better statistics, research, programs, and policies and through increased organization and representation of informal workers. The individuals and institutions in …

Zenzele Training and Development is a registered Section 21 non-profit organisation and is based in Khayelitsha, an impoverished and overcrowded informal settlement situated just outside Cape Town. The organisation has as its mission and vision:to provide skills training and business development training to unlock & develop the God-given potential of …