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KIEDF Program in Focus
Initiative for Development of the Negev and the North
KIEDF is facilitating NIS 600 million of bank credit via Bank Leumi for new and expanding small and medium-sized businesses in the Negev, Gilboa and Galilee regions.
This innovative fund combines loans with business training to help develop micro-businesses led by Bedouin, Arab and Jewish women having difficulties obtaining credit from banks.
"With a loan from SAWA, Asiyah started her own pita bakery."
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This new fund, in partnership with Bank Hapoalim, provides guarantees for loans of up to 30,000 shekels for micro-enterprises, mainly for women facing barriers in raising credit.
This fund joins other KIEDF Micro Credit initiatives assisting entrepreneurs in disadvantaged communities. [VIEW SUCCESSES]
Year-long training programs assist groups of mostly women from disadvantaged populations seeking to improve their situations by developing small businesses.
Through the KIEDF course, Mommo learned key business management skills that have improved his store's profitability. [VIEW SUCCESSES]
Helping small businesses make it big, via the magic of microfinancing The Times of Israel, April 4, 2012 The Koret fund is the fuel for the engine of thousands of small businesses in Israel, providing small but crucial amounts for businesses that can’t get the money they need from banks.
Boosting Israeli-Arab entrepreneurship through microloans ISRAEL21c, Aug. 10, 2011 KIEDF has united with the San Francisco-based non-profit organization Kiva Microfunds in a groundbreaking venture aimed at helping Bedouin women of the Negev, Arab Israelis in northern Israel and other low-income sectors of Israeli society.
