Future Eve Foundation

Future Eve Foundation works to provide widows and female heads of households with economic opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. In 2012, Future Eve Foundation launched the Amal Project to provide vocational and financial literacy training, microloans and project support for widows to launch and run their own businesses, in addition to the development of widows’ saving and loans associations (WISALAs). These initiatives have provided widows with the opportunity to access capital and savings to build their credit to support themselves and their families.

Achievements

With Alfanar’s support, Future Eve piloted the Amal Project beginning with three villages in Minya supporting 250 widows. In addition to grant funding, Alfanar gave training to Future Eve staff on monitoring and evaluation and sourced a financial consultant to provide expertise on the project. As a result, the Amal Project has expanded to support more than 23,000 widows across 108 villages. Alfanar is now working with Future Eve to scale their successful model to new geographies.