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Fonkoze - Educating Individuals to Become Self Sustaining
Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance institution, is another good example of integrating microfinance with other services such as medical treatment, remittances, empowerment, insurance against risk and natural disasters, health insurance, and in particular, education to help improve clients’ situations and contribute to the overall economy.
Enhancing Microfinance Efficacy through Integrated Services
Most microfinance organizations serve what we define as the extreme and the moderate poor.
BRAC - Linking Food and Training with Microfinance
BRAC, the world’s largest NGO with a large microfinance program serving more than five million Bangladeshi families, is another example demonstrating that microfinance can and should serve the world’s poorest.
Increasing Microfinance’s Reach with Integrated Services
The destitute—individuals at the very bottom of the socioeconomic scale—are still outside the current scope of most microfinance institutions.
Inhibitors to Success: Natural Disasters
Like ill health, natural disasters are another area of vulnerability for the poor.
Overcoming HIV and Building Her Community
Marie-Claire's story - One of Grameen Foundation’s first Village Phone Operators in Rwanda rises above the odds

Achieving Financial Stability
Marie Francois' story - Haiti

A Second Chance
Beatriz's story - Honduras

Leaving the factory to weave her own dream
Ying's story - China

Grameen Foundation partners with local Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda to Relaunch Village Phone Initiative
The Grameen Foundation, a non-profit organization that tries to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions, is relaunching its Village Phone initiative in Rwanda in collaboration with MTN Rwanda (a telecommunications company). The project, called Village Phone Rwanda Tel’imbere has four local microfinance institutions (MFIs) as partners. The project was initially launched in 2006, after a successful pilot scheme had run for a year.

Grameen Foundation partners with local Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda to Relaunch Village Phone Initiative
The Grameen Foundation, a non-profit organization that tries to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions, is relaunching its Village Phone initiative in Rwanda in collaboration with MTN Rwanda (a telecommunications company). The project, called Village Phone Rwanda Tel’imbere has four local microfinance institutions (MFIs) as partners. The project was initially launched in 2006, after a successful pilot scheme had run for a year.

Other Grameen Foundation Related Articles

Sales Prospecting Is a Dirty Business (or Why a Clean Desk Is Not a Good Sign)
Prospecting is the foundation of sales. Just like digging a foundation when you build is dirty but necessary, so is prospecting. Without a good foundation your house can crumble. Without prospecting your sales business can also come down around you.
Have you read Banker to the Poor?
If not, it was written by Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
Grameen Foundation partners with local Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda to Relaunch Village Phone Initiative
The Grameen Foundation, a non-profit organization that tries to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions, is relaunching its Village Phone initiative in Rwanda in collaboration with MTN Rwanda (a telecommunications company). The project, called Village Phone Rwanda Tel’imbere has four local microfinance institutions (MFIs) as partners. The project was initially launched in 2006, after a successful pilot scheme had run for a year.

Andrea Hernandez Diaz's Story
Andrea has been making textile handicrafts for the last twelve years. At 36, she is married and has 6 children. Before she became a client of Grameen Foundation partner AlSol, she embroidered her fabric and maintained a small production. Many times she would not be able to meet the demand for her crafts because she did not have enough resources to invest in her small business.

Chaibia Sabil's Story
Chaibia is a client of Foundation Zakoura, a Grameen Foundation Growth Guarantee recipient.

Overcoming HIV and Building Her Community
Marie-Claire's story - One of Grameen Foundation’s first Village Phone Operators in Rwanda rises above the odds

Grameen Bank - Alternative Microfinance Approaches
Grameen Bank operates on the premise that the poor remain poor not because they do not have the skills or do not work hard, but because the institutions created around them keep them poor.
Interview of Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank
I found this interview of Mohammad Yunus of Grameen Bank. His idea to provide “micro loans” to poor people to jumpstart their entrepreneurship truly is changing the world. In fact, Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
Blueprint for Building a Business On Purpose
Have you ever seen a skyscraper being built? If so, you know that for the first several weeks or months, very little appears to be happening, at least above ground. That's because the initial work is focused on building a solid foundation. The higher the skyscraper is designed to be, the more solid the foundation needs to be to support all those stories. The foundation of a Business On Purpose is what I refer to as "Clarity of Purpose...
Start with an Extraordinary Foundation
If you know me, you know that I consistently emphasize building your home based real estate business on a solid foundation. In fact, the foundation will often dictate your degree of success.
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