Oikocredit

❓How do we empower the backbone of Nigeria’s economy? By investing in partnerships that matter. Oikocredit’s recent USD 5 million loan to Baobab Group is set to transform the landscape for Nigerian hashtag #MSMEs, offering the resources they need to thrive. Baobab serves over 200,000 clients with reliable financial solutions, and with Oikocredit’s support, the bank can expand its reach to more underserved communities. This collaboration embodies a mutual vision for inclusive growth and sustainable development. 👉Let’s build an economy where businesses of all sizes can prosper. https://lnkd.in/eJdjaZ-u #InclusiveFinance

🆕We’ve made a repeat US$8.6m loan to Valency Agro Nigeria Limited to support its expansion of raw cashew nut processing for export. An Oikocredit partner since 2021, Valency has created and sustains hundreds of permanent and seasonal jobs, especially for #women, and supports #smallholder #farmers and their families in improving their livelihoods.     Valency has won industry recognition and numerous awards for its work in #Nigeria building a #sustainable supply chain for #agriculture products.    Want to know more? https://lnkd.in/e6GUS8KB

✨🎄 As we celebrate the season of hope and peace, we’re filled with gratitude for our network dedicated to creating a brighter future for the most vulnerable. At Oikocredit, our diversity empowers us and offers a glimpse of a world where ‘peace on earth’ is within reach. Spanning from our partnerships in the Philippines to the support of our investors in Canada, you are the driving force behind our shared vision for a better tomorrow. 🤲 Thank you for your continued inspiration and collaboration. Wishing you all joyful holidays and we look forward to deepening our impact together in 2025!

Oikocredit is celebrating 30 years of creating social impact in Kenya! 👏 With €225.7 million (KES 30 billion) invested in Africa, they've been supporting smallholder farmers, entrepreneurs, and underserved households. From agriculture to renewable energy and financial inclusion, their work has been all about empowering communities. At a special event in Nairobi, #Oikocredit brought together partners and stakeholders to celebrate the journey and plan what’s next. Caroline Kamau-Mulwa, their Regional Director for Africa, put it perfectly: “Together, we’ve improved livelihoods and supported sustainable development across Africa.” And Dave Smit, Director of Impact Investments, reminded us of the incredible untapped potential Africa holds: “Every euro invested here creates more impact than anywhere else in the world.” This is what happens when partnerships and purpose come together. Here’s to even more impact in the years ahead! 👏 #SocialImpact #FinancialInclusion #SustainableDevelopment #AfricaInvestments #Oikocredit

📢 We’re excited to announce a new partnership in Ecuador! Oikocredit has joined hands with Lucha Campesina to strengthen inclusive financial services for smallholder farmers and rural communities. With a three-year USD 2 million local currency loan, we’re helping amplify agricultural microfinance programmes that empower cultivators and livestock producers. Operating across four Ecuadorean provinces, Lucha Campesina provides financial services that transform lives and promote equitable growth. Together, we aim to create sustainable opportunities and foster meaningful rural development. 🌱 👉 Learn more about this announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e3wvccFC #FinancialInclusion #RuralDevelopment #SustainableAgriculture

🌍 We are thrilled to celebrate SEKEM Group incredible achievement of being granted the prestigious Champions of the Earth award by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)! 🌱 Since 2012, Oikocredit has proudly partnered with SEKEM in its journey to promote sustainability and environmental responsibility. This award, presented in the Entrepreneurial Vision category, recognises SEKEM's outstanding contributions to #sustainable land management and their biodynamic #agriculture methods that are helping to combat desertification, land degradation, and water scarcity. 🌾🌱 We congratulate SEKEM on this well-deserved honour and look forward to our continued #partnership in building a more #sustainable and thriving world. 🎥Watch SEKEM’s movie announcement here:

🆕 Over 15 years ago, the #cooperative shareholders of Grupo Financiero Banrural invited Oikocredit to be part of the development of #rural finance in #Guatemala by investing in the bank. Now we’ve sold our equity investment, after helping Banrural become a key enabler of #financialinclusion across Guatemalan society.    With more than 3.5 million clients and 5 million savings accounts, Banrural serves rural #communities, #Indigenous peoples, cooperatives and #women’s organisations. We sold our equity shares to nine independent cooperatives and federations, helping further democratise the bank’s capital base, fostering fair future wealth distribution, and strengthening the Guatemalan cooperative movement.    👉 Take a look: https://lnkd.in/eQRMncUD

🤝 Our new loan to BANCO ADEMI in the Dominican Republic continues to build our #community-focused portfolio with finance for people with low incomes #housing and climatechange resilience. 📖🧑🌾🌿 Ademi will also use our #socialimpact investment to expand financial services for #smallholder agriculture, small and medium enterprises, #education, #health and the #environment. We’re delighted to strengthen our partnership with Ademi – the only universal bank specialised in microfinance in the Dominican Republic and fully committed to promoting #sustainable development, ensuring equal growth opportunities for women and men, and reinforcing the social and environmental fabric at community level. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/d95tSdzX Photo: Jan Groennou | Karina Vasquez Sosa | Andres Bordas | Jose Rafael Marmol M.

Oikocredit celebrating 30 year presence in Kenya! It was wonderful more than 80 attendees could free their busy schedules to join our breakfast program. It was a challenge for the photographer to capture all of us in the same picture! After warm welcome words from Robert Kagiri Wanjohi, sharing the history of Oikocredit, and Caroline Kamau-Mulwa giving her personal reflections as Oikocredit Regional Director Africa and thanking all the partners -of which many date back to the very early days- for their trust and confidence, Curtis Musembi professionally moderated a high quality roundtable with @Lukiana Makunda from FSD Kenya, Gideon Rotich, Nathan Kyalo, Pally Jim Muchiri Muthathai and george kitili. It was good to learn their valuable insights and forward looking perspective on challenges and opportunities for impact investments. And Dr. Peter Munga stood up and inspired all present to run the extra mile and create value for the people of Africa. Geoffrey M. closed the program concluding Oikocredit is just getting started, we need to Aim Higher for Africa and that deepening and broadening partnerships is the only we can together realize more impact in a financially sustainable manner. I am sincerely proud of the team, our partners and our impact... just 30 years young, just getting started! Looking forward to the next 30 years of impact with our partners, you!

📢 “Oikocredit is deeply committed to bridging the financing gap in #WASH for underserved communities in Southeast Asia,” said Tes Pilapil, Regional Director, Oikocredit, at our Jakarta roadshow with Aqua for All. 💡At a 30 October event in Jakarta, Oikocredit and Aqua for All welcomed over 40 participants from 22 organisations to discuss sustainable financing for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The event showcased their partnership’s progress in developing financial inclusion initiatives for low-income communities in Indonesia. 💧By bringing together key stakeholders, this roadshow demonstrates the power of collaboration to address the financing gaps in the WASH sector. Together, Aqua for All and Oikocredit are driving lasting change, ensuring that financial solutions are more accessible to the communities that need them most,” said Owais Shafiq, Senior Impact Finance Officer at Aqua for All. Learn more about the partnership between Aqua for All and Oikocredit here: https://lnkd.in/dqHNnDTk #ImpactInvesting #SDGs #WaterAccessibility #CommunityEmpowerment Photos: Ibu Ruli Nurdina Sari , Deputy for Cooperative Financing and Protection of the Ministry of Cooperatives & SMEs | Farli Meisaputra, Risk Management Staff at KOMIDA