Grameen Foundation

Grameen Foundation helps the world's poorest -- especially women -- improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to appropriate financial services, life-changing information and unique income-generating opportunities.

We do this by helping microfinance institutions and other poverty-focused organizations become more effective and efficient, enabling them to reach more poor people with financial services, such as small loans and microsavings. We help these organizations find financing, and provide products and services that enable them to measure their results and better understand their customers.

Working with local and global allies, and the poor themselves, we also create mobile phone-based solutions that address the devastating effects of "information poverty." We help the poor to better manage their health, their crops and their finances, enabling them to improve their lives and break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families.

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