Empowering Individuals in the Global Community Through Entrepreneurship
Whole Planet Foundation supports entrepreneurs in our global communities by partnering with local microfinance institutions that offer small business loans to the very poor.
Business: Animal Husbandry
Business: Produce
When we met Godfrey in April he told us “I feel like praising, praising, and praising Jamii Bora because of what they have done!” Godfrey explained that microcredit has enabled him to diversify his farm for continued income and food for his family.
Business: Piñata Making
Business: Raising Bulls
Business: Sidewalk Store
Aracely owns a cake business in the town of Estelí, Nicaragua. She heard about Pro Mujer on the radio and soon after, she took out her first loan. With access to microcredit she has increased her production from 10 to 55 cakes per week. She plans to move her wood burning oven into her home as well as repair the dilapidated walls in her house. She is the president of her borrower group of 22 women.
Business: Neighborhood Store
Business: Farmer
Business: Seamstress
Business: Weaving
Business: Growing Vegetables
Business: Animal Husbandry
Asusena runs a tortilla-making business in the rural village of Condega, Nicaragua. In the back of this traditional mud hut shared by two families, Asusena and her sister-in-law make more than 200 tortillas a day.
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Business: Growing Coffee
Business: Hair and Nail Salon, where she also sells shoes and buys and sells jewelry.
Business: Butterfly Farm
Business: Raising Chickens
Business: Grocery and Butcher's Shop
Business: Farmer
John and his wife Mary live in the Nyeri region of Kenya, where Whole Foods Market sources coffee through Allegro Coffee Company.
Business: Small Store
Business: Food Stand
Business: Food Cart
Business: Growing Tomatoes
Business: Embroidery
Marta makes fine pottery in a rural area outside of León, Nicaragua. Her loans have enabled her to buy greater quantities of clay and increase her production. She has also been able to hire an employee. Marta’s business success is enabling her to send her three children to school.
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Business: Jewelry Store
Business: Kisok
Business: Weaving
Nelson MandelaOvercoming poverty is not a gesture of charity; it is an act of justice.
Muhammad YunusThe poor themselves can create a poverty free world.
Ingrid Munro, Director of Jamii Bora, a Whole Planet Foundation partner in KenyaOne cannot lift a person out of poverty. There is no country in the world that has raised itself out of poverty through charity. What we offer to Jamii Bora members is access to a ladder that they can climb up to take themselves out of poverty. But the climbing they must do themselves.
