Hashoo Foundation Credit and Enterprise Development (CED) for Rice Microfinance (RMF)

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MOU valid from2010 - 2012

RMF 2010-12

24 beekeepers

192 dependents

PHASE II

Allocate recovered

revolving loans to

Another group

12 beekeepers

Rice Microfinance (RMF) CED 2009-2011

RMF/ HF USA

MOU signedJune 2009

RMF provided

$4,200 forrevolving

microloans

PHASE I

12 beekeepers

received each:$350 loans for

3 beehives &

production kits

PHASE I

Expected honeyproduction 54 Kg(18 Kg/ beehive)

Projected beekeepersincome $189 ($3.50

per Kg)


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Credit and Enterprise Development (CED)Program

CED adds a new microcredit component that facilitates expanding the Womens

Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Plan Bee project in terms of scale

as well as geographic coverage.

In collaboration with Rice Microfinance (RMF), the project provides a long term

sustainable means through a revolving microcredit fund expanding the project

with gradual increase to women headed households considering the loans are

paid are expected for a given period.

The goal of this pilot project is to provide micro loans to 24 women beneficiaries

in honey bee farming.

CED mobilizes and organize communities into workable cluster based groups,increase the outreach and productivity, provide training in bee farming ensuring

quality honey through improved processing facilities and related infrastructure,

and facilitate market linkages for the sale of honey at higher competitive prices.


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Plan Bee Promotes Women Empowerment,

Economic Development and Education


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CED Loan DistributionLoan Distribution Spring 2010


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CED Loan DistributionLoan Distribution Spring 2010


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CED Loan DistributionSpring 2010


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CED Loan DistributionSpring 2010


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Rice Microfinance CED Loan DistributionLoan Distribution Spring 2010


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Plan Bee Affected by the Floods in Pakistan


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Beekeepers Homes Destroyed by the Floods


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Assessing the Condition of the BeehivesAfter the Floods


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Assessing the Condition of the Beehives

After the Floods


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Assessing the Condition of the Beehives

After the Floods


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CEDLoan Recovery Status 2011


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Rice Microfinance (RMF) CEDLoan Summary 2011


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Promoting Women EntrepreneursChanging Lives


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Hashoo FoundationMission

Is to enable and empower communities to be independent by

facilitating equitable access to opportunities through economic

development, education and skills development, supporting

people with special needs, and providing humanitarian

assistance.


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Womens Empowerment through Honey Bee

Farming Plan BeeThe Womens Empowerment through Honey Bee Farming Plan

Bee was initiated by the Hashoo Foundation to empower

women in the remote areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in

Northern Pakistan by expanding employment opportunities and

generating a stable source of income through the sale of high-

quality honey

l d


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We Want You to Stay InvolvedHelp Us Make the World a Better and More

Peaceful Place

With your collaboration, sustainable

economic development projects,like Plan Bee, will strengthen vulnerable

communities and help decrease the

influence of extremism in Pakistan


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Plan Bee

Hashoo Foundation Credit and Enterprise Development (CED) for Rice Microfinance (RMF)

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