Small business training and support in partnership with local organisations in Brazil, Cambodia and the UK. One-to-one support and mentoring. Training on financial management and setting up small businesses, including preparing a business plan.
MRIF partners with local organisations including in Brazil, Cambodia and the UK to provide:
Over the last three years we have trained more than 150 LGBTI people and facilitated the opening of dozens of new small businesses. MRIF’s training module can be adapted and replicated in several countries.
The impact of the election of a far-right and homophobic president in Brazil on the LGBTI community, particularly on those living in poverty.
The impact of poverty reduction programmes in achieving social acceptance
Aiming to meet the requests from our own beneficiaries, MRI Brazil held the first intensive digital marketing course for LGBTI small entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro in April 2018.
Graduation of 27 LGBTI people from the 5th entrepreneurship course run by Micro Rainbow Brazil exclusively for low-income LGBTI people.
In March 2018, our Micro Rainbow Brazil project started the 5th small business course for low-income LGBT in Rio de Janeiro. Find out more about the selection process, the new students and the course’s new features
In December 2017 our Brazil team held an end-year meeting with our beneficiaries to discuss the progress in their own businesses and challenges for 2018.
MRI visited and consulted with the LGBTI community in Somroung Yong district, which is part of the Takeo Province to tackle poverty of LGBTI people by providing technical support and financial assistance.
Kuy Thida, a Cambodian transman faces gender discrimination and financial struggles in his life
Learn about interfaces between entrepreneurship and professional qualification among our beneficiaries in Rio and how they have contributed to their professional success!
31 students graduated from MRI’s 4th course. Find out about the course, the newly created businesses and challenges for LGBT entrepreneurship in Brazil
In Cambodia, LGBTI people face bullying at school and economic hardship because of family rejection. This reality of discrimination means that LGBTI students have higher school dropout rates than the overall student population.
PINK AT WORK is an online platform of products and services offered by LGBT entrepreneurs.
An infographic overview of the Brazil project from 2015 to 2017
At a press conference on 15th August MRI launched a new publication compiling some of the success stories of socioeconomic inclusion and empowerment of LGBT people in the fight against homo and transphobia, due to Micro Rainbow’s poverty reduction activities in Brazil.
Micro Rainbow International Foundation
