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ACCION International is a nonprofit that fights poverty through microlending. Every day, millions of enterprising women and men around the world struggle to better their lives by opening tiny businesses. What they need is a little credit - a loan as small as $100. With ACCION, they can get it.
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Biz Credit |
Founded in 2000, Bizcredit is a start-up for-profit company that provides access to microloans via the Internet to low-income, self-employed, "micro entrepreneurs" who have limited access to the capital they need to grow their businesses. Bizcredit seeks to make a positive social impact while using technology to achieve the market penetration and operating efficiency of the traditional financial services industry.
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| » Bushnet |
Bushnet is a limited liability company incorporated in Uganda in 1996 and in Kenya in 1999. Bushnet was formed to provide the first commercial application of the Deep Field Mailing System, a technique of transmitting data over HF radio that was developed for the World Food Programme by founding directors of Bushnet. Bushnet's strengths lie in data (IP) and wireless (RF). Bushnet has invested heavily in research and development, and in training highly competent Ugandan and Kenyan teams, while installing robust networks for leading corporate entities in the region, including key government entities.
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| » eChange |
eChange works to create positive global change. eChange values technology as an important catalyst for exponential change in the world. eChange was founded in 1999, in response to a shortage in the microfinance industry of qualified consultants with expertise in technology, information analysis, and human resource training. The company is a women-owned and -operated business registered in Washington, D.C.
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| » FINCA |
FINCA provides financial services to the world's poorest families so they can create their own jobs, raise household incomes, and improve their standard of living. FINCA delivers these services through a global network of locally managed, self-supporting institutions.
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| » FINCA Uganda |
FINCA Uganda, one of FINCA International's three pilot transformation programs, has been instrumental in crafting legislation that will allow Village Banks and other microfinance lending institutions to accept savings deposits, make individual savings and loan products available, and receive loan payments directly rather than having clients make payments through a commercial bank.
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Freedom from Hunger's collaborating partner in Uganda, FOCCAS (Foundation for Credit and Community Assistance), was established in 1993 to initiate long-term, self-help solutions to the poverty affecting millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Freedom from Hunger is an international development organization working in sixteen countries. Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, non-sectarian organization classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charity.
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The Grameen Technology Center is working to eliminate poverty by leveraging the power of microcredit coupled with information and communication technology. The Grameen Technology Center builds on the work of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the Grameen family of companies, and Grameen Bank replications in more than forty countries.
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| » HP |
HP intends to be an exemplary global citizen by engaging in unique public/private partnerships and modeling behavior and activities in our governance, environmental policy and practices, community engagement models and our e-inclusion initiatives to bridge the digital divide. We bring together citizens, governments, NGOs, multilaterals and other corporations to solve problems on a local level. |
| » PRIDE Africa |
PRIDE AFRICA (PA) is a US non-profit (501-c-3) company with regional offices in Nairobi, Kenya. PRIDE AFRICA's role concentrates on research and development aimed at developing new ideas, products and platforms to mainstream the poor. Its mission is to create a commercially sustainable financial and information services network in Africa.
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Uganda Microfinance Union |
The mission of Uganda Microfinance Union (UMU) is to provide quality financial services to Uganda's low-income entrepreneurs. The organization aims to become a permanent, sustainable financial institution in order to allow low-income people the opportunity to help themselves.
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