"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!

GRAMEEN FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA

forms relationship with

SO THEY CAN

It's exciting times at GFA as we have recently entered into a working relationship with So They Can, a very successful not-for-profit organisation with activities in Africa.

Currently So They Can helps some of the poorest people in Kenya, particularly children. The focus of So They Can is to break the proverty cycle permanently by working with poor communities so they can be educated and self sufficient. To date So They Can has built a school, an orphanage, a sustainable farm, a micro finance business school, a medical clinic and together with GFA is working on a feasibility study for a Teachers' Training College in Tanzania.

Below are some of the links that tell the story so far. 

Website: www.sotheycan.org

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvVPQUD45VY

Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/So-They-Can/257097317688331

More news...

GFA is currently conducting a feasibility study in the Manila slums (Philippines). We are looking to support, in a direct, accountable and tangible manner, a school and micro finance project.

In order to achieve this GFA have appointed Cassandra Treadwell as CEO. Cassandra is the founder and CEO of So They Can. 

GFA is extremely excited about our new projects and the direction we are heading.

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