Lending a Hand Through Rural Microfinance
Yehu is a microfinance organization in the rural coastal region of Kenya for the poor, run by the poor. It provides financial and other support services for small businesses owned by very poor people.
Yehu operates in conjunction with Choice Humanitarian, an international NGO specializing in village development. Yehu was created based on the principles and procedures of the world-renowned Grameen Bank.
Combating Poverty
Yehu’s mission is to combat poverty by empowering poor rural entrepreneurs in Kenya to help lift themselves out of poverty through enhanced accessibility to sustainable financial services. This includes enabling them to save and earn interest while giving them access to micro-loans, which can be used to start or expand their small businesses. Yehu also provides some business training, micro-insurance and other services to improve the lives of its members. Ultimately, Yehu provides hope and a hand—up to those who have been marginalized by society.
The vision is to nurture a responsive, efficient, effective and sustainable MFI of first choice among the rural entrepreneurs in the coastal region in particular and the entire country of Kenya in general.
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Yehu Bank, serving the marginalized poor. Yehu Bank has carved for itself a narrow niche of the lower end market segment of largely women entrepreneurs. We provide the opportunity to improve lives through responsive sustainable financial services to our valued market segment. Located at the Coastal region of Kenya (East Africa), this intervention through Yehu bank since inception has benefited 13,440 women through microloans ranging between… Read More »