ATIL was launched by a local social NGO to help improve the incomes of businesses in the Tetouan area of Morocco- a region that sees a lot of economic activity on the coast but suffers from economic exclusion inland towards the Rif mountains.
ATIL is taking a different approach to serving very small enterprises in its communities by developing targeted social business loan products that can work closely with rural villages and identify particularly underserved niche businesses such as fishermen and those serving local tourists. Additionally ATIL is very engaged in creating a strategy to do more than just offer business capital to poor entrepreneurs and is working to link clients to more lucrative markets and agricultural trade shows where organized producers can display and sell their goods nationally at a much better price.