Phakamani Foundation

Phakamani empowers very poor women who have good self-employment ideas by giving them training and business loans starting as low as $100 to as high as $1500. Entrepreneurs in our program benefit from structured, on-going, group-based support, modeled on the internationally recognised Grameen Bank system. The goal of Phakamani's program is to increase the income, savings, and basic living conditions of poor families, while fostering and enabling an entrepreneurial spirit in South Africa's rural communities.