women

Soacha’s heroines

They lead different lives and have gone through unique experiences, but Jessica and Norma have more things in common, than…

CSW63: ‘Women as forerunners of change’

 

Access to education to guarantee the future

This is a story about a service that is as basic as it is essential, but that in some parts…

Microfinance and development: how to stimulate change

“Women’s enterprises grow faster than those of men, and they invest what they earn in their children,” said the head…

BBVA Microfinance Foundation, recipient of the Corporate Citizen of the Americas 2018 award from the Organization of American States

This award, bestowed to the Foundation by the Trust for the Americas/OAS acknowledges its program to promote women’s economic empowerment…

Orange the world, #HearMeToo: a call to hear out gender violence survivors

For 16 days, the hashtag Orange the world: #HearMeToo was trending on social media. Do you want to know why?…

BBVA Microfinance Foundation receives award for the story of the female entrepreneur that travelled around the world

Half of the million people served by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF) in Colombia through Bancamía are women; mostly heads…

“Empowering women in the economy allows them to lead the life they want”

BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s head of Women’s Empowerment, Laura Fernández Lord, gives an interview on women’s economic empowerment and the challenges…

“Rural women, when given equal opportunities as men, achieve immediate social and economic progress”

United Nations celebrates the International Rural Women’s Day every October 15th

Microfinance improves women’s income and reduces gender gap

According to BBVA Microfinance Foundation’s Social Performance Report, which includes results from its Chilean institutions Fondo Esperanza and Emprende MF,…

Bancamía, an institution of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation and She Is Foundation sign a partnership to support female victims of the armed conflict

According to official data (Registro Único de Víctimas), currently there are more than 8.5 million victims of armed conflict; 4.6…

BBVA Microfinance Foundation joins FAO’s campaign to empower women in rural Latin America

The campaign entitled “#RuralWomen, women with rights” seeks to give visibility to women’s achievements and challenges towards full autonomy in…