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Eleven women's groups in the Potentiel Terre program are structured on the Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) model, with  3 officers, 2 controllers and an average of 30 members. They hold at least one annual general meeting.  (photo: Dosso group May, 2021) 
Thanks to Peace Corps connections like Potentiel Terre (PT), TCP Global can reach even this tiny village where Potal group borrowers live.
Chief of Tibbo village (left) with volunteer Nana Sabina and Tibbo community agent who assists the group in keeping accounts and keeping documents.
There is full transparency with the women watching each  transaction and verifying the cash. 

Potentiel Terre, recommended to TCP Global by Friends of Niger, serves as fiscal agent for this and other groups that lack the bank account and computer access necessary to participate in an international program. Once the group has all the funds they want to manage, they will  continue on their own. 
Here, the president of Niyya group on the left, the treasurer in the middle and the provisional secretary count the money and verify transactions. 
Currently 8 more PT groups request loan programs. Due to a temporary cash-flow problem, TCP Global is using limited resources to only honor requests for expansion from existing partners. With your help, we can again accept new partners. 
A workshop, financed by loan program earnings, provided the Husa'a group with training in savings, leadership, education and entrepreneurship. 
$7000 in earnings withdrawn to date also paid for transportation to the 11 sites, office equipment, a peanut cultivation improvement project in Tibbo-Beeri, environment and youth employment project in Dosso and campaigns to improve agricultural output.  


The TCHIGABA group of 86 women, mostly widows, receive loans to improve their small businesses and in turn they provide opportunities for vulnerable girls.  
These are some of the 40 orphaned girls, no longer in school, who receiving training from the Tchigaba group to prepare to support themselves. They are learning how to make soap, local pastries and clothes. 
Meeting of Potal groups 1 and 2 

In just 18 months, Potentiel Terre and the 11 groups for which it serves as fiscal agent, have issued 711 loans worth $73,250.

The 1st loan is paid in 2 months with weekly installments; the 2nd may be 3-4 months and subsequent loans longer. Groups structure their loan programs to meet their needs, using Potentiel Terre guidelines. 
A young Fulal beneficiary girl who aspires to do modern livestock farming and offer herself a better living condition in the village.
This woman received a loan to raise goats. With her earnings she pays for her grandsons' schooling and clothes while her son looks for work. 
Fati used her loan to buy a bag of corn to make flour. During the rainy season, flour sells well.
 Oumalhair relaunched her business making a traditional pastry that is favored by woman and children.
 
Oumoulhair used her loan to buy wood to sell in the rainy season. Her business is going well.
Nafi set up a sales table for various items of everyday consumption.
"Poverty is unnecessary"  ..... Muhammad Yunus                     
 
TCP Global requests your support to:

1) Connect TCP Global to a grassroots partner like YOGI in Nepal. Join the TCP Global team in zoom sessions to support the loan program.  

2) Forward this notice so others can learn from Judith in Uganda the difference a small loan makes.

3) Volunteer like Kenney, to mentor a loan program in a country you know well.

4) Make a donation like RPCVs of Chicago, Kansas City, Long Island and Madison-Wisconsin, and Friends of Colombia and Nepal.  
Until Peace Corps is back in the field, TCP Global is a good substitute for Peace Corps Partnership Projects for supporting development in small and remote communities around the world.
For more info, contact TCPGlobal@peacecorpsconnect.org
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