By Topic: Islamic microfinance
Financing the livestock value chain: Using Sharaka Bil Mawashi for Udhiyya
Dr Mohammed Kroessin, head of our Islamic Microfinance Business Unit, discusses using Sharaka Bil Mawashi for Udhiyya. In many countries, livestock is for poor and rich people a…
Read moreIs a lack of liquidity blunting Islamic finance’s key poverty reduction instrument?
Islamic Relief’s Dr Mohammed Kroessin, head of our Islamic Microfinance Business Unit, warns that years of supporting progress out of poverty is in jeopardy. Arguably, microfinance — the…
Read moreThe role of microinsurance in the global pandemic
Public health systems have been overwhelmed by the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in low-income countries, and private healthcare and health insurance are out of the reach of most people.…
Read moreHow Islamic Relief’s trailblazing approach to qurbani is lifting families out of poverty in Niger
In the densely populated Lazaret area of Niamey, Niger’s capital city, a group of women is gathered in a compound. Some sit on mats, taking an adult literacy…
Read moreFighting Covid-19’s economic impact at the micro level
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Islamic Relief’s Dr Mohammed Kroessin, head of our Islamic Microfinance Business Unit, explores how microfinance can aid economic recovery. The global pandemic that has…
Read moreCan microfinance soften the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic?
Islamic Relief’s Dr Mohammed Kroessin, head of our Islamic Microfinance Business Unit, discusses how microfinance can reduce the economic suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Within a few…
Read moreTady’s story: Poverty to profit
Tady Barethe lives in Bamako, Mali. She is 62, a widow and has six children. Before Islamic Relief’s loan she used to trade in small items like toothbrushes…
Read moreAl Rayan Bank UK, Islamic Relief join hands to support enterprise and empower communities
By Denise Marray/Gulf Times Correspondent /London Islamic Relief and Al Rayan Bank are teaming up to support Shariah-compliant microfinance through fundraising activities, which will help empower people to…
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