FUNDACION PARAGUAYA

Has worked for over 30 years to eliminate poverty in Paraguay and throughout the world.  Fundación Paraguaya (FP) enables people of limited resources to create jobs and increase their family income by promoting urban and rural entrepreneurship through a microfinance program, an economic education program for young people, and nine self-sufficient agricultural high schools that teach business skills to low-income rural youth. Based and founded in Paraguay, it has aimed to replicate its model in other countries beginning with Tanzania. Beneficial Returns provided Fundacion Paraguaya a loan to finance cheese-making equipment for one of its livelihood programs.