Welcome to Women's Microfinance Initiative

View Video of WMI 2011 Independent Banking Program

Watch Video of WMI 2011 Independent Banking Program

WMI's mission is to establish village-level loan hubs, administered by local women, to provide capital, training and support to rural women in the lowest income brackets in East Africa so that they can engage in income producing activities.

WMI HOLIDAY TRIBUTE LIST In this holiday season, hundreds of WMI Holiday Tribute Cards have been sent out by WMI supporters worldwide as a way to give a meaningful gift that helps a woman work her way out of poverty and as a way to increase WMI's visibility.

Take a minute to see those who have been honored by their friends and families. Holiday Tribute List.

WMI has joined the Combined Federal Giving CampaignCombined Federal Giving Campaign
WMI has now joined the Combined Federal Giving Campaign. If you are a federal employee, please consider WMI. Our CFC number is 40340. Read more

Goal: Buyobo Girl Thanking WMI WMI's goal is to help women build assets so that they can stabilize their income, raise their standard of living and reorient themselves and their families. WMI's small loans bring big changes to impoverished women, who use the money to build small businesses. With pro bono legal assistance from the law firm of Baker & McKenzie in New York, WMI issued its first microloans in January 2008. As of October 2011, WMI has issued over 4,000 loans to women in more than 250 villages. Focusing its current efforts in rural Uganda and Kenya, the WMI loan program is run entirely by local village women. WMI has developed a unique economic model to transition women to bank loans and the formal economy in 24-months. Loan funds are recycled so that the program becomes self-sustaining.

WMI 2011 - The Year in Pictures WMI 2011 - The Year in Pictures

Click here for photos from 2011