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705 More than 15,228 beneficiaries have received support both in grants and loans from the NBSSI/ Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (Nkosuo). The programme forms part of a partnership between the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) and the Mastercard Foundation and focuses on supporting MSMEs and start-ups in sectors such as Agriculture and Agro-businesses, Water and Sanitation, and Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals. Other sectors are Garment and Person...

Foundations partner to distribute COVID-19 safety packs Dayo Ojerinde A non-profit organisation, Beyond The Classroom Foundation, has partnered MasterCard Foundation to distribute free COVID-19 safety packs to 3,000 children through the COVID-19 community champions volunteer programme. According to a statement on Tuesday, the programme would see the volunteers visit communities in Lagos and Abuja to educate and distribute free COVID-19 children safety pack to 3,000 children. The founder of the ...

THE STANDARD By Peter Theuri | December 20th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Participants during Ashoka and Mastercard Foundation annual Future Forward Summit at USIU, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] Over 200 local businesses in Kenya have applied for Covid-19 relief loans under a programme run by Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa) and Mastercard Foundation. The first set of beneficiaries have received loans and several more are under review. The Mastercard Foundation Covid-19 Recovery and...

Urgent Holderness Road repair work expected to cause disruption Hull City is contributing £380k to the works Urgent repair work will take in Holderness Road (Image: Geograph/Ian S) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or servic...