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This week only: Every $1 will be matched with $2 to empower women worldwide.
Women in low-income countries around the world exhibit extraordinary power.
Often, they are the backbones of their households, doing unending and unpaid work to help their families survive.
They are capable, resourceful, and persistent.
When we work together, we can break barriers that exist for them at the systems level—such as harmful gender norms, financial exclusion, and digital divides.
Through an innovation prize we ran in Eswatini, two financial service providers can now reach tens of thousands of women in rural areas. These women can download an app that helps them manage and save money, access loans, and become financially literate.
Grameen connected thousands of coconut farmers to digital advisory services and financial products to help them generate a sustainable supply of coconut oil, improve their livelihoods, and create a positive environmental impact.
Grameen Mittras, who serve rural villages in India, are trained to provide mobile banking and health services to their communities. Each Mittra can reach, on average, 125 clients in a year.
Grameen Foundation works with village savings and loan groups in Ugandan refugee settlements, connecting them to local digital service providers and microfinance institutions. The mobile money agents we train there connect even more clients to these tools.
TaroWorks, Grameen's software-as-a-service subsidiary, has clients in more than 30 countries, improving the lives of over 3 million people living in last-mile communities. TaroWorks helps entrepreneurs, social enterprises, and nonprofit organizations with data collection, monitoring, sales and inventory management.
Our volunteers helped nearly 190,000 clients—ranging from coconut farming collectives in the Philippines to financial providers in Eswatini—with supply chain improvements, marketing plans, finance assessments, and more.
Nearly half of the world's small-scale farmers are women, yet only 15% own the land they farm on. Grameen Foundation provides smallholder farmers with text-based weather alerts and pest control, extension services so they can grow their farms using environmentally friendly methods, and even hyper-local soil data. We also connect women farmers to markets and farming organizations so they can sell their crops at a profit and learn from their peers.
Read MoreNearly one billion women do not have even a basic bank account. They may own a shop, have a lot of business and entrepreneurial smarts, but they cannot secure a loan. Grameen Foundation transforms the patriarchal financial systems working against them, training them to become successful digitally enabled entrepreneurs and working with households to create greater financial gender equity in their communities.
Read MoreOur Mobile Money and Digital Farming solutions harness technology in remarkable ways, but they are merely tools. What matters is what we do with them. That is where our networks of Community Agents come in.
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