Digital Farming

Our mission: To empower the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger.

Grameen Foundation is celebrating 25 years of empowering women to lift entire communities out of poverty in 2022. We design digital platforms to help people in developing countries save for the future, invest in their businesses, and improve their farms. Then, we train some of these people, mostly women, to become Community Agents, who deliver these tools to their communities.

The result is a chain reaction of benefits for women and families. Incomes and food security increase. Families can pay fees to send their children to school. They can build assets and endure emergencies. Each Community Agent can reach an average of 100 vulnerable households—or 400 people—in a year. And to date, Grameen has trained nearly 12,000 Agents.

Since 2016, we've reached more than 16 million people with the services they need to improve their lives.

Will you help us create a world without poverty?

What's New

Madrigal, a beneficiary from the Philippines, at her shop.

Cryptocurrency and Women's Empowerment: A Success Story

Find out how Grameen, Celo, and local microfinance partners worked together to provide safe, efficient Blockchain assistance to women entrepreneurs so they could get back on their feet.

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Catalyzing Change in Eswatini Through Digital Tools

72% of adult women in Eswatini are self-employed, making rural women entrepreneurs a huge potential engine of economic growth for the nation. But a vast majority of banks in Eswatini are unwilling to take a risk on people who do not earn a steady salary. Digital financial services have the potential to be a game-changer here. We are excited to introduce two organizations who are expanding services in creative ways.

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Child Labor: An Unintended Consequence of Women’s Entrepreneurship?

Child labor and other risks to children’s safety and well-being are thus becoming an unfortunate and unintended consequence in the process of women’s economic empowerment.

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