Why Now?
Because just $10 can make a world of difference in the lives of a poor woman and her family.
Consider poverty’s effect on the world:
►One billion people live on less than $1 a day.
►One-in-five people live without adequate water or food
► 26,000 children die each day from preventable causes
Your donation can make a difference.
What will $10 do?
Every day, women around the world living on less than $1 a day combine ingenuity, creativity, and hard work to make ends meet. Can you imagine what they could do with a small loan?
Your $10 tax-deductible* donation will support our programs that help poor women gain access to information and capital. This enables them to create microbusinesses and improve their lives.
What can a woman do with so little?
- With $30, a woman can buy food to start a snack stand.
- With $50, a woman can buy thread and fabric to supply her embroidery business.
- With $100, a woman can buy a small stove to prepare food to sell.
- With $150, a woman can buy seeds, tools and fertilizer to grow more corn and rice to eat and sell.
- With $250, a woman can buy a cell phone kit and become the pay phone for her community.
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With an $85 loan, Riskatu expanded her business selling charcoal, food and firewood. “I am growing my business for my children to continue education. |
With a loan of $100, Andrea Cruz grew her family’s trout business. She is now able to feed her family and three of her eight children have launched their own micro-businesses. |
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About Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit organization, helps the world’s poorest people access financial services and technology solutions by providing financing, technology support and management strategies to the local organizations that serve them. It also spearheads technology initiatives that create new microbusiness opportunities for the poor, provide telecommunications access for the world's rural poor, and improve their access to health and agriculture information and other services. Founded in 1997, Grameen Foundation has offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Washington, Hong Kong, Ghana and the Philippines. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is a founding member of its board of directors, and now serves as director emeritus. For more information, please visit http://grameenfoundation.org.
*Donations are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Grameen Foundation is granted tax exemption under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance of Hong Kong. Grameen Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Grameen Foundation’s board retains ultimate discretion in how funds are designated for use.
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