In April 2025, in Boffa-Soumbouyadi, three women's economic interest groups received their official approvals and the funding for their first activities. Each group was granted 20 million Guinean francs, 60 million in total.
The money was paid into accounts opened in the groups' names, not handed over in cash.
Transparency as a condition
The payment came with the opening of bank accounts through the Crédit Rural agency in Boffa. This choice is not administrative: it gives the groups traceability over their own management — a condition for accessing further funding, and a guarantee that the activities launched will last.
An approach that is spreading
The same support is now under way in Tormelen, in the prefecture of Fria, where at least four further groups are being formalised.
This action is part of a broader community approach, which also includes the funding of teachers in the schools of affected villages, the provision of textbooks, drinking-water boreholes and a health response plan deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
