
Government is to make credit accessibility from the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) to market women easier with the creation of MASLOC offices in major market centres across the country.
The First Lady Mrs. Lordina Mahama addressing participants at the maiden National Market Women conference on the theme: “Empowering Market Women for Economic Prosperity”, held at the forecourt of the State House in Accra stated that government is carrying out major expansion of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, by continuing the implementation of its lending programmes, into other areas such as poultry and fish production.
She also disclosed that MASLOC intends to support over fifteen thousand (15,000) people in the small and medium scale enterprises sector, in addition to disbursing funds to over two hundred thousand (200, 000) people engaged in food-crop farming and food marketing.