Help 5 Women in Goma Rebuild Their Livelihoods

We are ASUCO ASBL, a community-based organization in Goma supporting women through savings groups and small catalytic grants. This month, 5 women are ready to rebuild their small businesses but lack the final support. We are raising $500 to provide $100 each and help them regain stability and dignity.

In Goma, in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, many women are working every day to rebuild their lives after economic and personal shocks.

ASUCO ASBL is a community-based organization supporting women through savings groups combined with small catalytic grants that help them restart or strengthen their income-generating activities.

Since the beginning of 2026, we have already supported 67 women through this approach.

Today, 8 women are still waiting for catalytic support to restart or strengthen their small businesses.

Through this campaign, we aim to provide catalytic grants to at least five of these women, enabling them to rebuild their livelihoods and strengthen their economic resilience.

Among them is a widow running a small activity selling a local maize-based drink. After facing a series of difficult events, she lost part of her working capital and struggled to maintain her business.

Despite this, she continues to show up in her savings group, to save what she can, and to rebuild step by step.

She is not alone in this situation.

Several women in our program are ready to move forward. They have the discipline, the structure, and the motivation.

What they lack is a small, timely financial support to unlock their next step.

Every $100 provides catalytic support to one woman to restart or strengthen her business. As new women join our savings groups, this campaign allows us to respond quickly whenever a woman is ready to take the next step.

Each woman will receive approximately $100 as catalytic support to:

• Restart or stabilize her small business
• Increase her capacity to save
• Strengthen her economic resilience

This means that $500 can directly support 5 women in regaining stability and rebuilding their livelihoods.

At ASUCO ASBL, we believe that small, well-targeted support can create meaningful and lasting impact.

Because behind each contribution, there is more than financial help — there is dignity, resilience, and the possibility to move forward.

Thank you for standing with women in Goma.

Campaign Update

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, additional women have recently been supported to strengthen or restart their small businesses.

The need remains. Several women in our savings groups are still waiting for catalytic support to rebuild their livelihoods.

We have therefore decided to continue this campaign until every woman currently on our waiting list has received assistance.

Every contribution continues to make a direct difference.