Stories & Updates

Stories 01/11/2018

Zindaba Hanzala Zulu – AMZ – Zambia – Agribusinesses

A former beauty pageant turned social entrepreneur; Zindaba Hanzala Zulu, is the founder of the social enterprise “Springfield Agro”. Her company champions a farmer scheme called Mulimi, which supports Zambian farmers and agri-related businesses by offering a wide variety of services such as funding, insurance, and sales and marketing of…
Stories 01/02/2018

Shinebayar Vision Fund- Mongolia – Car dealership

Shinebayar is one of the first Mongolian entrepreneurs that received a loan through Lendahand’s local financial partner Vision Fund. Despite the fact that he dropped out of school at sixteen years old, Shinebayar managed to create a successful venture for himself. After joining the army and working at a car…
Stories 25/10/2017

T. TSOOJ – Vision Fund- Mongolia – Hair salon

T. Tsooj operates a hair salon and hair products store in Darkhan city, the second largest city in Mongolia. She already operated a hair salon but was not able to access a loan through traditional banks. It was through Lendahand’s local partner Vision Fund that she managed to get access to…
Updates 14/10/2017

Lendahand Foundation partners up with Rags2Riches foundation

Lendahand Foundation joined forces in a partnership with a local Filipino social enterprise, Rags2riches, to provide funding to their own academy. This academy supports sustainable livelihoods of female artisans in local communities. The funding will be used to organize 5 trainings for 200 local artisans in 2017. One of Rags2Riches…
Impact 01/07/2017

(N.) Vision Fund- Mongolia – Clothes shop

<Judith to insert name later on> took a loan from Lendahand’s local partner Vision Fund to start selling clothes. The success of her business allowed her family to move to the city from a nomad settlement in a tent and to live in a modern house in the city and…
Stories 09/01/2017

John Alforque

Van restmateriaal stoeltjes maken voor lokale bassischolen? Waarom niet! John: "Ik ben succesvol ondernemer en zo kan ik iets terugdoen voor de gemeenschap. John Alforque is Alforque Woodcraft Industries begonnen in 1998. In eerste instantie verkocht het bedrijf uit hout gesneden kunstwerkjes, maar toen de vraag hiernaar afnam stapte Alforque over naar stenen…
Stories 09/12/2016

Ann Margaret

Ann Margaret is the CEO of Eslan EDUFORUM, a business that takes care of education materials for schools in Mandaluyong City and surrounding areas. The vision of the organisation is to make quality education possible and accessible to Filipino children - both in cities as in more rural areas. The company…
Updates 01/10/2016

Rabobank supports Lendahand Foundation with EUR 10K!

We're very happy that Rabobank Foundation (Share4More) will donate the amount of EUR 10.000 to the Lendahand Foundation! This amount will be used to organize training sessions in The Philippines for the next 6 months. On behalf of the 150+ Philippine SME entrepreneurs that will benefit from the sessions, many…