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We want to eradicate poverty

Our vision is a world free from poverty. Our two most important tools are education and microfinance. By providing people with knowledge and skills, the possibility to save and access to small loans, we give them the ladder leading out of poverty. But the poor have to climb it themselves.

This is what we call "Help for self-help".

Where we work (02.09.2010)

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Royal support

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway support disadvantaged adolescent girls in Bangladesh.

Norway's first Centre for Culture and Development

Yesterday MIMETA, Norway's first Centre for Culture and Development, was launched. The organization is owned by Strømme Foundation and Vest-Agder County.

The microfinance salon

KENYA: In the Mathare slum four friends are running a hair salon. They started the salon with the help of microfinance.

Finally able to go to school

NIGER: Jamila (12) has never attended school. Not until Strømme Foundation’s Speed School came to her village almost one year ago.

- The smell of success

MALI: 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.

Young journalists with a big task

PERU: Equipped with a camcorder, an eager attitude and a big portion of bravery, three teenagers in the jungle town of Iquitos in Peru have worked to document and inform of the lives of high-risk children.

Created his own business

SRI LANKA: 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.