How is it an investment if I’m not making money?

Your “extra cash” could be sitting in an account somewhere earning investment returns. Yet chances are you’re reading these words because you, like millions of others around the world, care about more than your own net worth.

By supporting a Zomia student’s education, you are investing in that individual’s future. Where traditional investments yield financial returns to you, funding a Zomia loan yields increased opportunity and potential financial rewards to the student you support. You’re altering that individual’s opportunities and life trajectory.

Like a traditional investment, there is risk involved—and unlike traditional investments, you cannot earn a financial return. But because you stand to recoup the money you lend, your support of a student is not a donation.