Grameen Foundation. Helping Women One Loan At A Time

The Grameen Foundation has been around since 1977 and one of the things they focus on are microloans to poor women and their families. Some of these people live on less than $1 per day. With microloans, no collateral is needed to receive loans, unlike traditional loans from banking institutions. As the money is repaid it is recycled to others and in this way loans multiply the value of each dollar in defeating world wide poverty.

Much of Grameen Foundation's work is done by a network of volunteers who are committed to the Foundation's mission. In just seven years GFUSA has a global network of 50 partners in 20 countries and has impacted an estimated 5.5 million lives in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East.

Women's Refugee Commision

Women are being singled out. They are beaten, raped and tortured as they scavenge firewood to feed thier families. Can you imagine wanting to feed your hungry family, and while looking for firewood you are attacked and raped?
Can you imagine life being so uncertain you do not know from one moment to the next where you will lay your head at night? Will you live to see the sun rise, or see your child's face in the morning? The Women's Refugee Commision is using it's voice and voices like yours to draw attention to the plight of millions of refugees in the Gaza strip, Darfur and Zimbabwe. Go to the site and add your voice. Read the reports and add your tears to theirs. Watch this video and feel what life is like for these women as they look for firewood.