Welcome to the Women's Development Businesses (WDB) Website!
The vision of the WDB Group is to "offer real hope to the women of South Africa to enable them to build a self sustaining future." The primary vehicle that we use to achieve this vision is by offering microcredit to rural women in order to help them out of poverty in a sustainable manner.
But why focus on women? Throughout the world there is a growing realization of the crucial role microcredit can play in reducing poverty, particularly when women are the main recipients. Increasingly women's contribution, as workers, entrepreneurs and managers of family and community welfare is recognized as central to the ability of households, communities and the nation to tackle the crisis of meeting people's survival and subsistence needs.
Our Divisions
The WDB Trust is the mother body of the Group. Its role is to ensure viability and sustainability of the Group...
WDB Micro Finance is our flagship programme aimed at alleviating poverty amongst poor rural women by offering them microcredit...
The Investment Holding company strategy is to build a capital base through a balanced portfolio of investment for the WDB programmes...
This division provides corporate South Africa with strategies on enterprise development, entre-preneurship growth...
We would like to thank our investment partners, donors and funders for their support:
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