Five Talents is working to spark micro-enterprise development in what, until recently, has been one of the most closed societies in the world. Recent reforms offer hope that Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is opening up. Five Talents equips entrepreneurs in Myanmar with access to savings groups, small business training and loans.
The Impact of Savings: The Economics of South Sudan
South Sudan is in the midst of a grand transition. Across the country, communities are moving from traditional barter or trade-based economies to a more liquid, money-based economy. As wealth is built, the impact of savings is being felt in some of the more rural communities in South Sudan.
Learn more about The Journey of Hope in South Sudan.
The Mama Bahati Foundation: Empowering the Rural Poor in Tanzania
Learn more about the origins of Mama Bahati and financial services among the poor in Tanzania. Featuring an interview with Japhet Makau, Mama Bahati CEO.
Avoiding Loan Sharks, Women in Indonesia Access Micro-Loans and Business Skills Training
What Five Talents Means to Me: Reflections from Jim Oakes
Five Talents USA Board Member, Jim Oakes, reflects on his involvement with Five Talents during a trip to South Sudan. Learn more about Five Talents innovative work in business training, savings, and loans.
Video by Jessi LeMay Photography and Black Label Media Group.
Savings-Led Microfinance in Tanzania: A Documentary with BBC and Five Talents
Five Talents work in Tanzania was featured in a special documentary exploring the impact of Christian microfinance and financial inclusion on low income communities.
Learn more about how you can walk alongside families along the road from poverty to new hope.
How Literacy Training and Savings Groups Are Changing Lives in Burundi
Laying a Foundation for Development in South Sudan
The savings and loan associations that Five Talents has helped to set up in South Sudan are preparing the way for a whole new generation.
Five Talents in Chennai India
Five Talents helped to establish growing microfinance programs in India. Watch a short video from Chennai on Five Talents work in the region from 2011.
A Day in the Life: Visiting Clients in Thika, Kenya
Lilian served as a Technical Development Officer with Five Talents-partner Thika Community Development Trust in Thika, Kenya. Join her on a trip to visit several of her microfinance clients (produced in 2014).