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We want to eradicate poverty
We want to eradicate poverty
Strømme Foundation is a Norwegian development organisation helping poor people in the global South climb out of poverty through microfinance and education.
Education
Education
Schools and education provide both children and adults with valuable knowledge and skills. This also gives people a lasting foundation to help them better their own lives.
Microfinance
Microfinance
Microfinance is about giving poor, creative people access to small loans and financial services so that they can obtain a steady income and a secure future.
the Culture Initiative
the Culture Initiative
- Development on people’s own terms
Culture has its place in many of Strømme Foundation’s projects, both within education and microfinance. But through the Culture Initiative we also work more specifically with culture.
What we do
Education
Microfinance
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Where we work
Asia
Bangladesh
Burma/Myanmar
India
Cambodia
Sri Lanka
East Timor
East Africa
Kenya
Madagascar
Rwanda
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
South Amerika
Bolivia
Peru
West Africa
Burkina Faso
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Strømme Business Partner
Strømme Business Partner
- Strømme Foundation’s cooperation with trade and industry
Working with schools
Working with schools
- Dedicated children and young people
SKRIK (SCREAM) – a confirmation campaign
SKRIK (SCREAM) – a confirmation campaign
Every year more than 3000 Norwegian teenagers scream for justice. SKRIK is the relief campaign of the confirmation candidates from the Lutheran church.
Involvement in Norway
The Business Sector
Schools
Student Exchange Programme
SKRIK
Saved from early marriage
Saved from early marriage
In rural Bangladesh girls as young as twelve or thirteen are given away in marriage. Strømme Foundation’s Shonglap programme has given Bithika Mondal (13) prospects for a better future. Her parents have decided to postpone giving her away to get married.
Finally able to go to school
Finally able to go to school
Jamila (12) has never attended school. Not until Strømme Foundation’s Speed School came to her village almost one year ago.
The microfinance salon
The microfinance salon
In the Mathare slum four friends are running a hair salon. They started the salon with the help of microfinance.
Created his own business
Created his own business
35-year-old Kandaiyya Padmanadan used to be a poor driver of a borrowed three wheeler taxi. Now he has got his own business, a vehicle and four employees - all thanks to microfinance.
Opened her own perfume shop
Opened her own perfume shop
- The smell of success
When Fatoumata Doumbia (33) became a widow two years ago, she was back to square one. A small loan saved her. Today she runs her own perfume shop where she sells home made soap and perfume.
People we have helped
In Asia
In South America
In West Africa
In East Africa
23.10.2008