Our Commitment to contribute positively to our world 

Contributing positively to our communities and environment is important to Penelope Poet. In fact, it's part of our mission!  We work together with our artists and suppliers to minimize our environmental footprint and help build more economic opportunities to communities worldwide.

When you support PenelopePoet.com you also help to provide economic opportunity to half a million families in 21 countries.

PenelopePoet.com donates a portion of sales to FINCA International’s Village Banking program. Donations to FINCA provide life-changing economic opportunity to some of the poorest communities in the world.  FINCA’s mission is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living.

FINCA’s Village Banking program offers a unique and influential method for delivering small loans, savings, and other financial services to the poor worldwide.  This is known as microfinance.   These services help families to start and build "micro" enterprises, the very small businesses that are important sources of employment, income, and economic vitality in developing countries worldwide.

Because salaried or wage-paying jobs are scarce in many developing countries, most citizens earn their livings through self-employment, creating and operating their own tiny enterprises. But without financial services to fuel their productivity, the poor can never grow their microenterprises into businesses that help them escape poverty. The microfinance movement was born to ease the suffering caused by poverty, and to awaken the global economy's sleeping giant: the under-capitalized productivity of the world's working poor.

For more information on FINCA International and the Village Banking program, please visit their website:

www.villiagebanking.org

FINCA International
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW
Eleventh Floor
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 682-1510 (tel.)
(202) 682-1535 (fax)

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