{"id":331,"date":"2025-10-07T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kigeziorphansproject.org\/?p=307"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:10:08","slug":"from-challenges-to-change-how-small-funds-are-transforming-rural-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/from-challenges-to-change-how-small-funds-are-transforming-rural-households\/","title":{"rendered":"From Challenges to Change: How Small Funds Are Transforming Rural Households"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I had the duty to check on some of the farmers who received small funds from our organization through the Microsoft loan scheme. I wanted to see how they are using the funds and what goals they have if they are given more support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-02-at-09.42.28-1024x767.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before giving funds, we always assess the challenges a farmer or household is facing, what they want to achieve, and where they hope to be in the next five years. This helps us guide and support them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-02-at-09.42.30.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-310\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment, we are working with 2,000 households, and we look forward to strengthening this scheme so that more families can benefit and improve their standard of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about us at: www.kigeziorphansproject.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the duty to check on some of the farmers who received small funds from our organization through the Microsoft loan scheme. I wanted to see how they are using the funds and<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/from-challenges-to-change-how-small-funds-are-transforming-rural-households\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Challenges to Change: How Small Funds Are Transforming Rural Households<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridinitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}