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City of Canterbury Show

20th July 2024
Venue: Westgate Gardens
Rotary Clubs in and around Canterbury will be collaborating in a membership drive during the Canterbury City Show which is being held in Westgate Gardens, Canterbury over the weekend of 20th &
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Late afternoon visit and BBQ at the Strode Park Foundation, Herne

23rd July 2024
Venue: Strode Park House, Lower Herne Road, Herne, Herne Bay CT6 7NE
We have been invited to visit Strode Park House and grounds for a late afternoon BBQ where we will be joined by residents and staff of the Strode Park Foundation.
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Lend with care update, December 2022

As the end of the year draws near we thought it a good time to give an update of loans that our Club has made to help people in developing countries out of poverty via microfinance organisation Lendwithcare.

As regular readers will know, Lendwithcare provides people in developing countries with small loans for entrepreneurial ventures.

Since we opened our account back in 2016 we’ve helped 5472 people and funded a total of 249 loans; these have helped 1122 entrepreneurs and created 788 jobs. We understand that over 3562 family members have been helped as a result of our loans.

One loan made in the last couple of months, for example, has helped a female farmer in Ecuador called Gina Yasmin. Gina is a smallholder who farms hens and pigs and grows crops such as maize; she has a school-aged son and her husband works in the mines. She hopes to expand her business and take on new workers. Thanks to our loan and that of others, Gina is now fully funded. We wish her well in her venture and look forward to further repayments (she has already started to pay back her loan). 

Over the last year we have also given loans to entrepreneurs in many countries including Rwanda, Cambodia and Pakistan. Click here to read how a Lendwithcare-funded entrepreneur in Pakistan is feeling about the rising costs of living in her country. 

Picture: Lendwithcare update: Picture: Rotary Club of Canterbury.

 

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