"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world … all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them."      Muhammad Yunus

By giving the poorest people the means to improve themselves in their situations, microcredit stands out as a powerful tool to sustainably reduce vulnerability and fight poverty. Professor Muhammed Yunus, founding father  of the microfinance movement, once described it as "a programme for putting homelessness and destitution in a museum, so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." Together we can make that dream come true!

Celebrate $27 on the 27th !

Did you know that Nobel Peace Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus sparked the global microfinance movement by making a loan of $27 to a group of Bangladeshi women out of his own pocket? 

Since this catalytic event, the microfinance movement has provided millions of women around the world with the microloans they need to help start or improve a small business, provide for their families and escape the cycle of poverty.  10.9 million of the world's poor have been helped by Grameen Foundation's MFI partners, allowing the poor to begin their journey out of poverty.

Every day, poor women around the world living on less than $1 a day combine ingenuity, creativity and hard work to make ends meet.  Now it is your chance to show your own ingenuity.

On the 27th of each month, tell the world that poverty is unnecessary and one person can help change the lives of the world's poorest.  Celebrate $27 on the 27th!

Here are three things you can do:

1. Give a gift of $27 to this movement. 

2. Change your Facebook status to: It's the 27th of the month, and I'm giving $27 to help the Grameen Foundation end global poverty.

3. Post this note in any group where you think like-minded people can read it!  If you haven't yet, be sure to become a fan on Facebook 

Overview of the Grameen’s impact