Cooperativa San Martin Potosí - Investing in an established cooperative with a high social impact
Cooperativa San Martin Potosí
Investing in an established cooperative with a high social impact
Bolivia
Cooperativa San Martin Potosí (CSM) is a small regulated savings and credit cooperative that supports low-income entrepreneurs running micro or small enterprises in Potosi in southern Bolivia. In 2018 Oikocredit became CSM's first external financer.
CSM has operated in the department of Potosí for over half a century. Its members strongly identify themselves with the cooperative and have a lot of confidence in and loyalty towards the institution.
CSM currently offers four different loan products: micro loans, trade loans, housing loans and consumption loans. The cooperative reaches out to more than 700 clients (2018).
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