ANH DUONG is a Vietnamese NGO in Long My in the Mekong Delta that supports the poor population with an efficient Microcredit offering and other services like agricultural techniques, training of para-veterinarians, protection of the environment and forests as well as development and creation of jobs for handicraft production. Over 1’100 families are currently using loans to build small businesses. Already 540 families have escaped poverty and are productive entrepreneurs.

Fontana Foundation made its first investment in 2010, reviewed the project in the Mekong Delta in 2012 and is committed for an engagement of five years. Trinh and her team at ANH DUONG have a hands-on and effective way of helping people to become small entrepreneurs and, as they say, graduate out of poverty in two to three years.

For more information goto www.anhduonghg.org