The Rotary Club of Nantwich has helped create more than 380 jobs in some of the poorest parts of the world thanks to a partnership with Lendwithcare.
The initiative has also supported 1,521 entrepreneurs and helped 5,200 family members.
Lendwithcare allows organisations or individuals to lend as little as £15 to fund a small business.
Once the money is repaid, investors can choose to recycle their loan to support another poor entrepreneur, or to withdraw the money.
Nantwich Rotary Club’s international committee chair John Crowe said: “The Rotary Club of Nantwich and individual members have invested £2,900.
“This has been re-invested as entrepreneurs repay their loans and £6,665 has been invested in total over the past four years making 118 loans, 100% of which goes to the entrepreneur.
“The difference we can make to thousands of desperately poor people for a relatively small investment is amazing!”
Among the many they have helped is an entrepreneur group in Zambia.
John added: “Nyangu Sakala runs a very interesting business, grinding maize into flour and sunflower seeds into oil.
“With the help of her Lendwithcare loans, Nyangu has managed to purchase four grinding mills – two for the flour and two for the oil.
“She keeps one of each in a garage next to her home where people visit either have their maize ground, or to purchase the maize flour or oil already processed.
“Nyangu now employs six people to help in her business and she and her husband also have a small shop where they sell the oil they press.
“She charges 15 kwacha (just over £1) to press 50kg of sunflower seeds and 13 kwacha (about £1) for 50kg of maize!
“Not only have the loans have been very useful in helping her business to grow, but with the profits she has been able to send her children to school and cover all of their household expenses.
“Nyangu has four children but she looks after a total of nine people, including two orphans and her younger sister.”
The Rotary Club of Nantwich continues to raise funds to support good causes both very close to home, and in very remote corners of the world.
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