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PARAGUAY FOUNDATION

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Mission

The Paraguay Foundation is Paraguay's largest and most respected non-governmental organization. It seeks to develop innovative solutions to poverty and unemployment for people in Paraguay and throughout the world.

Background

The Foundation enables people with limited resources to create jobs and increase their family income, promoting urban and rural entrepreneurship through four interrelated strategies:

• A Microfinance program that supports microentrepreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs generally relegated by other microfinance institutions.

• An economic education program for children and young people.

• A self-sufficient agricultural high school that teaches organic agriculture and business skills to low-income youth from rural areas to transform them from "poor small landholders" into "rural entrepreneurs".

• An international replication program for self-sufficient schools alongside its UK sister organization Teach A Man To Fish.

The goal of eliminating multidimensional poverty is woven into every activity they do, whether it's microfinance to alleviate income poverty, entrepreneurship training to teach children and youth how to avoid poverty traps, or financially self-sustainable education that breaks down cost barriers for students to stay in school.