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Despondency, lack of confidence, having no access to assets, no collateral and subjugated by local influential landlord, hardly any member of community can desire to be entrepreneur. Such venture is unthinkable. However if any member feels differently and assesses himself/herself to start some enterprise, he/she does not have access and reach to the Banks.
Commercial banking in Pakistan has claimed the boom in the sector. These Banks are flourishing with huge profits by only catering to the needs of top end influential lot of society who have the capacity to borrow but has never reached out to the poor of this country. They are denied the facility of small loans against social collateral, the one they have. They have no way to establish small and medium enterprise and start income generation businesses.
There is strong realization on the part of decision makers that prevalence of poverty must be reduced if not eradicated. It is also desired in the Millennium Development Goals which seek to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. In keeping with it, Government of Pakistan and Government of Sindh have taken several initiatives with the help of donors. SRSO feels happy to be a partner in such efforts to address poverty. It is striving to achieve this goal in its target area.
Among other initiatives, disbursement of micro credit to the marginalized people has played an important role to help them to bring about some positive change in their plight.
Given this, SRSO has established a Rural Credit Sector and has negotiated a
sizeable fund to be disbursed to the socially mobilized and organized community
against its collective and individual collateral. Rural Credit Sector SRSO
disbursed huge amount of credit or financed the number of professions i.e
Livestock, Agriculture, Enterprise Development etc.
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