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A year of change

2014 was a year of major changes for the steering group of Women’s Bank. We reorganized roles and tasks; considered...

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Kuopio hosts fun and informative meeting for volunteers

Women’s Bank had its yearly meeting for volunteers all over Finland in october, in Kuopio. Over 40 volunteers got together...

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‘We are going to be businesswomen!’

A training programme aimed at setting up successful businesses has started in Goma, in Eastern DR Congo, funded by Women’s Bank. Women and girls taking part in the project have the opportunity to influence traditional livelihoods as well as the development of the region.

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Walk brought close to 2000 professions

Women’s Bank yearly ‘Walk a Profession for a Woman’ event this year put up funds for 1991 professions for women in developing...

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Women are the future

In January, the founder members of Women’s Bank made a trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the idea of creating...

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Reeta Meriläinen heads Women’s Bank

During its first seven years Women’s Bank has been growing and developing with the help of its wonderful volunteers and...

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Women’s Bank volunteers meet in Jyväskylä

Women’s Bank is still a young organization and growing all the time. All the more important are these events, where...

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‘My own restaurant’

In January 2013 graduation time was once again celebrated in the vocational school supported by Women’s Bank in Sierra Leone....

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Empowering women in Uganda helps their whole family

Members of village banks receive a 6-months training, during which they start to save. Money is not handed out to...

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Seeing the fruit of our efforts

Our small group of volunteers is set for Uganda on a self-sponsored trip, to see for ourselves the field work...

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