Help us congratulate and celebrate Acumen Fund on their 8th Anniversary, today, April 1 2009. During the past eight years, the organization has invested over $40 million in social enterprises which serve the poor and have directly and tangibly changed millions of lives. To celebrate their 8 year anniversary we’ve compiled an abridged list of their impact around the world:
India:
-Over 60,000 people have access to lean water via 35 self sustaining water filtration plants (built or being constructed)
Environment Planning Group Limited (EPGL)
-$400 increase in income for farmers in rural India via modern irrigation techniques
-1.1 million people have been or will be impacted by the improved farming techniques
Global Easy Water Products (GEWP)
-Over 30,000 poor people in Mumbai have received emergency ambulance services
-1,300 entrepreneurs added to the Drishtee distribution network
-300 women entrepreneurs funded
-6,000 people have been able to access low-cost pharmacy products in about 9 months
-48,000 people have regained their sight through low-cost eye glasses
Pakistan:
-$100 million in loans to 300,000 clients have acquired microcredit
-500,000 low income customers will or have been shielded from financial shocks via First Micro Insurance Agency
-50% decrease in water required to cultivate an acre of land via improved irrigation techniques
Kenya
-2,ooo homes for families which previously lived in and around the slums in Nairobi, Kenya
-12,600 metric tons of nutritionally-enriched porridge produced yearly to serve to low-income customers
Tanzania
-Employ over 6,000 residents, most of whom are women
Celebrating Acumen Fund’s 8th Anniversary with pictures:
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Acumen Fund
- Venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
- Organization Type: Non-Profit
- Website: www.acumenfund.org
- Founder(s):Jacqueline Novogratz
- Founded:2001
- Location:United States, India, Kenya, Pakistan
- See complete company list here
Image Source: Daniel Goodrich
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