Macayan Savings and Loans – Savings, loans and more

Improving the Lives of People We Touch

We empower communities through responsive and innovative microfinance, skills training, business and social development services.

The micro lender for sustainable development

We are a Non-Government Organization (NGO) based in the Philippines specializing in microfinance and social services for the urban poor. Created in 1980 by Allied France, we are registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-profit, non-political, and non-sectarian organization.

Based in Manila, Philippines, we reach out to several areas in Metro Manila and in other provinces. Every year, we help more than 10,000 urban poor Filipino families through financial and social assistance, giving them the chance to overcome poverty and become self-reliant. Feel free to browse and learn more about us, our work, and our people.

Our Services

Financial and Non-Financial

Loans

Provision of microloans amounting from PhP 1,000 to 500,000 for the entrepreneurial poor intended for business use including but not exclusive to start-up additional rolling capital, acquisition of assets and equipment, business expansion or business diversification.

Trainings & Seminars

These trainings and seminars aim to equip the participants with the necessary skills, knowledge, attitude and capability in developing a certain product or service. These will also teach them a variety of topics that can eventually be an income-generating activity.

Adopt-A-Community

Macayan identifies communities in need of assistance and conducts studies on how it could help address such needs. We have implemented various community projects such as water systems, urban gardening, materials recovery facility and tree planting activities.

Our numbers as at April 2025

Total Loan Portfolio

0 M

Office Branches

Members

0 K

Active Projects

Our Story

In 1980, Macayan began as a project of Allied, an international French NGO specializing in the implementation of developmental programs. Rexford Lanley, a French Allied staff, developed the Rufus micro credit project in 1980, during the time when the Grameen Bank approach to microfinance was gaining global popularity.

A friend from the United Nations Development Program directed him to focus his attention in Navotas, a fish port municipality where the population density is high. Due to the limitations of group approach with group liability, Mr. Lanley proposed that individual loans was the best approach.