AFI’s mission is to make a real impact in the fight against financial and social exclusion in Greece by helping unemployed people create their own jobs and by helping existing businesses grow through access to funding of up to 10,000 euros in the form of microloans and free-of-charge pre and post disbursement business development services.

ESBG (European Savings Banks Group) is an international banking association that represents one of the largest European retail banking networks, comprising of approximately one-third of the retail banking market in Europe.

microStart scrl is part of a group created in 2010 of which the job is – through microcredit – to finance and support those excluded from the banking system (jobseekers, recipients of help from Public Social Welfare Centres, the self-employed, etc.), to create or to develop a small independent business.