United for Assistance (UA) is engaged in providing short and long-term interest-free loans to local associations (known as cooperatives) whose mission and activities fall between the lines of UA’s mission and objectives. UA believes these loans can support the beneficiaries to empower them and lift their social and economic conditions by creating income generating activities that can gradually give them the ability to support themselves for long term. The aim is to teach the impoverished families to fish but not to feed them with fish.