How It Works
Fund an entrepreneur of your choice, get updates and watch your impact multiply as the entrepreneur pays it forward.1
Entrepreneurs apply.Bineta is a talented seamstress in Senegal, West Africa. Her gorgeous dresses are in high demand - but because she sews them by hand, she produces at most one or two per week.
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Funders choose.One day a friend invites Bineta to join Zidisha, and she posts a proposal to fund her dream: an electric sewing machine.Dozens of people around the world chip in to fund Bineta's project.
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Production increases.The new sewing machine triples Bineta's production capacity. She now makes six dresses per week!
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Jobs are created.Bineta raises a second project to open a studio. She hires her first employee.
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Earnings improve lives.Bineta now comfortably supports her children with the profits from her dress sales.
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The next generation gets a head start.Bineta uses her increased income to send her teenage daughter to a college preparatory school.
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Funds are recycled to new entrepreneurs.Bineta reinvests 100% of the funds she raised in other entrepreneurs on the platform. One of them is Soni in Indonesia, who uses the funds to open an after-school tutoring center in his village. The cycle repeats!
