- Name of the Program: ‘VASHA Foundation Microcredit Program.’
- Implementer: Voluntary Activities for Social & Human Advancement (VASHA) Foundation.
- Stakeholders: VASHA Foundation, Midas Financing Limited.
- Starting Date : 26th August, 2005.
- Present Status: Ongoing.
- Period: Continuing.
Activities under the Program:
- Microcredit in Rural Area.
- Microcredit in Urban Area.
- Microcredit for Small & Medium Entrepreneurs.
- Microcredit for Poor & Ultra poor.
- Microcredit for Disaster Confrontation.
- Microcredit for Education & Training.
- Microcredit for Housing.
- Microcredit for Transportation.
- Microcredit for Manpower Export.
- Microcredit for Food & Nutrition.
- Microcredit for Health & Treatment.
- Microcredit for Cottage & Handicrafts.
- Collection of small savings from the beneficiaries.
Category of Loan:
- General Microcredit (MC)
- Micro Enterprise (ME)
- Ultra Poor & Poor (UPP)
- Others
Every Category has the following Sub-Category
- Agriculture
- Livestock
- Fisheries
- Processing & Manufacturing
- Trading
- Cottage & handicrafts
- Others
Target Groups
- Rural Poor and Ultra Poor Community.
- Urban Poor and Ultra Poor Community.
- Indigent People.
- Young Man & Woman of any area inside Bangladesh.
- Physically Disabled People.
- Underprivileged Community.
- Retrenched Garments Worker.
- Slum Dweller.
- Disaster Affected People.
- Fisherman.
- Hermaphrodite.
- Daily Laborers.
- Farmers.
Objectives:
- To make Poor and Ultra Poor community financially solvent.
- To make unemployed youth self-employed.
- To make landless and worthless community economically solvent.
- To help trained people in creating employment by providing financial support.
- To assist in and develop the agro-sector.
- To inspire beneficiaries in savings and hence collect small savings.
- To make groups with beneficiaries.
- To help and inspire beneficiaries in establishing small and cottage industry.
- To help and inspire beneficiaries in handicrafts.
- To improve gender issues by making women self-dependent and solvent.
- To assist and inspire the uneducated community in education.
- To improve the living of slum-dwellers.
- To make physically disabled people self-dependent.
Microcredit Information:
- Date of commence:
- Number of beneficiary members enrolled:
- Number of active beneficiary members:
- Accumulated number of loan recipients:
- Present number of loan Recipients :
- Accumulated Microcredit Disbursement in Taka:
- Present Outstanding in Taka:
Loan Performance of VASHA Foundation
FY | Members Enrolled | Number of Borrowers | Loan Outstanding (BDT) |
March’2023 | 3217 | 3039 | 72,273,423 |
2021-2022 | 2660 | 2206 | 61,685,695 |
2020-2021 | 2175 | 1718 | 52,827,436 |
2019-2020 | 2378 | 1834 | 51,651,713 |
2018-2019 | 2108 | 2315 | 42,026,460 |
2017-2018 | 2014 | 1935 | 28,991,581 |
2016-2017 | 1667 | 1616 | 16,398,001 |
2015-2016 | 1499 | 1357 | 11,765,588 |
2014-2015 | 1285 | 1174 | 9,580,123 |
2013-2014 | 1271 | 1130 | 8,902,306 |
2012-2013 | 1264 | 1085 | 7,837,427 |
2011-2012 | 1301 | 1120 | 5,375,375 |
2010-2011 | 1439 | 1070 | 57,34,958 |
2009-2010 | 2152 | 1080 | 45,75,289 |
2008-2009 | 1948 | 952 | 43,64,446 |
2007-2008 | 880 | 213 | 12,21,800 |
2006-2007 | 541 | 135 | 4,76,000 |
2005-2006 | 147 | 23 | 1,33,200 |
Geographical Coverage: Chattogram District.
Coverage area:
- Ward # 01, Union # 10, Vatiari, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 02, Union # 10, Fouzdarhat, Uttar Solimpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 01, Union # 10, Vatiari, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 02, Union # 10, Fouzdarhat, Uttar Solimpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 03, Union # 10, Foujdarhat Jelabari, Uttar Solimpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 06, Union # 10, Moddom Solimpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 08, Union # 10, Latifpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 09, Union # 10, Latifpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 10, Union # 10, Uttar Kattoli, Moddom Solimpur, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 07, Union # 07, Kumira, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 04, Union # 07, Kumira, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 05, Union # 07, Kumira, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 07, Union # 08, Kumira, Sitakundu, Chattogram.
- Ward # 09, Khulsi, Chattogram City Corporation, Chattogram.
- Ward # 10, Uttar Kattoli, Chattogram City Corporation, Chattogram.
- Ward #11, Pahartali, Chattogram City Corporation, Chattogram.
- Ward #12, Pahartali, Chattogram City Corporation, Chattogram.
- Ward #26, Halishohor, Chattogram City Corporation, Chattogram.