About BRS

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About BRS

Three million people in this world still do not have access to financial services such as saving, credit or insurance. Microfinance and microinsurance organisations in developing countries offer a solution to this by developing services for "non-credit worthy" and "uninsurable" persons.

Mission

You can give an inhabitant of a developing country a fish to alleviate his hunger, or you can give him a fishing net and teach him how to fish.
Yet you can still go a step further: you can lend him money to buy a fishing net and teach him how to save. In that way, he is helped along in his development towards independence. More>

History

The difficulty in accessing financial services in developing countries is reminiscent of the situation faced by small-scale farmers in our country at the end of the 19th century. At that time, F.W. Raiffeisen’s savings and loan cooperation offered a way out of the vicious circle. CERA Bank arose from this in Belgium. In 1992, on the Bank’s one hundredth birthday, the Belgian Raiffeisen Foundation, or BRS for short, was created in order to support these organisations. More>

Organisation

BRS is a small team that, through the cooperation with non-governmental organisations and other partner organisations as well as the efforts of many volunteers, succeeds in realising a great deal. More>

Partners

Thanks to the committed support of various organisations and countless individuals, BRS succeeds in developing professional support for its partners in the South. More>