Community Microfinance Limited (CML) started a
volunteer program in 2012 after realizing that there was a need to
create opportunities for our organization internationally. The
activities that our volunteers worked on during their stay with CML made
us realize that loans cannot solve many of the community challenges
that our clients and the general community are facing. The management of
CML realized that there was a need to start another organization this
time with a nonprofit mission or one with a goal to help the community
in other charity based or managed problems.
What prompted Community micro-finance to start Microfinance Volunteers (MFV)?
Social mission goal
Community microfinance has a goal that is twofold, one that is profit
oriented and a social oriented mission. To realize these two goals
required us to separate or segregate these two goals with two
organizations. Community microfinance is run as a profit company yet
Micro finance Volunteers is a charity not for profit organization.
Microfinance Volunteers (MFV) helps Community microfinance fulfill its
corporate social responsibility.
Not every problem can be solved by using credit.
The first reason was that our clients faced many challenges that credit
alone cannot solve. Through experience we realized that other
alternatives needed to be created to help our clients and the general
community have solutions to the many problems that exist.
Internship opportunities to both local and international students
Many students both local and international find it hard to get
opportunities to carry out their internship. We realized that in the
communities where we work development challenges exist that students on
internship need to appreciate and at the same time try to find
solutions. MFV offers interns with an opportunity to work with
communities in need.
Volunteer Opportunities
Many people around the world are looking for opportunities to volunteer
in areas of their choice as a way of helping solve human problems. MFV
offers international volunteers the much needed opportunities to serve
or work with communities in areas of their specialty or where there is a
touching need to solve.
MFV opportunities are not limited to microfinance but are generic in
nature. MFV is simply a platform which one can use to volunteer in
the various areas of need in our communities. The scope of the
volunteers’ opportunities span from working with microfinance
organizations and Saving and credit societies, teaching in primary schools, teaching in secondary
schools, teaching computer in community ICT center, training
entrepreneurship to youth and women groups, working in health centers,
working with community environment initiatives, community based organizations etc
Volunteer funded projects
Many volunteers wish to fund or fund raise for initiatives that touch
their hearts. MFV offers volunteers an opportunity to fund or fund raise
for a cause of their choice in relation to the needs that they see in
the communities. MFV offers the volunteers information and guidance
where such information is required for the volunteer to make sound
decisions. MFV has technical and experienced development workers which
gives volunteers ease when working with the community.
Community Microfinance Limited (CML) started a volunteer program in 2012 after realizing that there was a need to create opportunities for our organization internationally. The activities that our…
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