Article below via WOCCU website
Nearly 28,000 people gained access to financial services for the first time and more than 2,500 entrepreneurs received support for their businesses during the first year of World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Economic Inclusion Project (EIP), a USAID-funded activity based in Peru and Ecuador.
Implemented in June 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and a political crisis in Venezuela, the goal of the project was to help Venezuelan migrants and vulnerable local residents achieve socioeconomic security by gaining greater access to financial products and services, entrepreneurship and employment programs, and to employ a strategy to help women avoid gender-based violence. Read more.