Koperasi KASIH Indonesia (KKI) is a social business that aims to empower poor families to exit poverty and never return. We are doing this by empowering our members through an integrated support of micro-loans, micro-savings and training on motivation and mindset. By the end of 2015, KKI have 46 employees and 7,994 active members. Since its inception in 2011, it has reached >13,000 beneficiaries, manages savings of > IDR 8 billion, disbursed loans of > IDR 34 billion and delivered >2,500 training sessions. KKI's story has been exposed by >35 media and shared in >50 forums locally and internationally. It has also drawn visitors from institutions like Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School and World Bank. In Dec 2014, it was awarded E&Y Indonesia Social Entrepreneur of The Year 2014 - one of the youngest institutions to ever receive that award at that time. KKI is well-known to be very idealistic and choosing not the easy or pragmatic ways to help the poor, but what is really needed by them. When KKI starts, it picked the poorest area. When we want to help the poor, we chose not to just giving loan, but also to train our members to believe in their dream, to manage their money, and to save. We believe that empowerment is the key to sustainably end poverty, and we stay true to that approach until today. For more information about KKI: > Kompas: https://goo.gl/6PUIaQ > Kick Andy: https://goo.gl/HZjgLF > Liputan 6 SCTV: https://goo.gl/Cse2iv
