What do we do?

Bloom Microventures, a non-profit social business, offers socially-responsible poverty-fighting day tours (microfinance tours) to marginalized communities in the developing world.

Bloom Microventures works at the intersection of microfinance and responsible tourism.

Venn diagram showing Bloom Microventures as the intersection between responsible tourism and microfinance

Here's how it works.

  1. Sign up for a microfinance tour in a location in which we are operating.
  2. Alongside our staff, you will travel off the beaten path to meet hardworking entrepreneurs and learn about their plans to enhance their businesses and livelihoods that will help them escape from poverty.
  3. After the tour, the fees paid for the tour are disbursed as a microloan to the entrepreneurs you have interacted with, ultimately providing stepping stones for the entrepreneurs and the community to escape poverty.
  4. Follow the progress and loan repayments of the entrepreneurs you met through our online project center.
  5. Stay involved, tell your friends and follow and support future projects from the entrepreneurs whom you met!

 

Click on the pictures (taken during our tours in Vietnam) below to get an idea of a tour! (you can use the arrow keys to navigate between the pictures)

A family picture with a microentrepreneur in front of her house Cooking the local way for our lunch Bon apetit! Some of our travellers get up close and personal with the temple offering (despite the Monsoon season) Trying to catch mythical fish at Giong's house We get welcomed to the temple while the nuns are conducting their morning prayers Getting off the beaten track in Soc Son after overnight flooding makes the tour even more of an adventure The locals have a laugh as the village receives travellers for the first time At this tour, rice was almost ready for harvest so we stopped with the group for an impromptu lesson in the economics of rice farming Sampling a local delight, betel nuts Toasting after a tour Demonstrating the techniques of rice farming Alicia fills some of our travellers in on what we've got planned for the day Children in Soc Son Kieran translates a successful borrowers story to our guests Learning new skills in a jewellery lesson at a disabled artisan's workshop Some of our tour toast a successful visit to the workshop with the local rice win, Xio