Hi All,
I would like to take this opportunity to highlight one of the charities I am supporting: The CRAMM Foundation.
CRAMM is short for Credit for Rehabilitation Aimed at the Marganilized Minorities. The CRAMM Foundation is a relatively small, but very affective and efficient organization founded in the Netherlands in 2008. Time, efforts and expertise that board members and ambassadors put into this organization is at a 100% voluntary basis.
The CRAMM Foundation believes it is important to improve the situation of marginalized minorities (e.g. people with disabilities and women) in developing countries. The CRAMM Foundation believes that it is only through independence, education and self-reliance that poverty can be vanquished. CRAMM strives to help empower people by providing support and assistance which is tailored to the strengths, capabilities, dreams and aspirations of the individual. For more information about the CRAMM Foundation, visit their website at: www.crammfoundation.com (Dutch).
Here is short translation of their main page:
“Everyday things that people take for granted are difficult for people with disabilities. In the Netherlands, this group has additional accommodations that help to make life easier for them. In a developing country, which already has a strong poverty, someone with a disability does not stand a chance, as you don’t count towards the “normal” people at all.
The Cramm Foundation aims to change that by improving the social and economic living conditions of people with disabilities in developing countries
through providing personalized, small scale(financial) aid (by-) entrepreneurs. We believe it is important to improve the position of people with disabilities and to enhance their chance for living independently. If they improve their situation on their own, only then can poverty be eliminated from the world. Small-scale aid, adjusted for local conditions and needs with the aim of strengthening the position of local disabled people is the key to success.
Microcredit is such an intervention. The Cramm The Foundation applies this to a small group of people, people with disabilities in Africa.”
If you would like to donate please send me a message @ che@cheandazlina.com for more information