April 2022 — FACS is pleased to report that great progress has been made in its financial advisory and technical support work for the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) Brooder Unit Financing Program in Tanzania with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program seeks to improve income generation for small agri entrepreneurs and to enhance food security and health nutrition for rural family buyers.

We are pleased to report the significant progress we have made in our Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) project in Vietnam. In spite of the serious implementation challenges, we faced due to COVID-19 we were able to succeed with our partners VietED Center and Lien Viet Post Bank (LVPB) to develop and implement a scalable smallholder lending scheme in Son La Province,

We are happy to announce that this week our credit services fintech affiliate LendXS has signed this new partnership agreement with Musoni Services, see https://musonisystem.com/blog/lendxs/. The technology partnership offers LendXS an additional distribution channel to Musoni’s rural lending clients in more than 20 countries. Through integration with the Musoni core banking system, these clients