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{{Infobox organization
| name              = Grameen Foundation Australia
| image             = 
| type              = non-profit organization
| ceo               = Shan Ali
| location          = Sydney
| origins           = Grameen Bank
| key_people        = 
| area_served       = 
| product           = 
| mission           = To create a world without poverty
| focus             = 
| method            = microfinance  
| homepage          = [http://www.grameen.org.au website] 
}}
'''Grameen Foundation Australia''' (GFA) is a [[501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]] based in [[Sydney, Australia]]. It was created to support the poverty alleviation work and missionwork of the [[Grameen Bank]], Grameen Trust, and otheir affiliate organisations by giving access to the poorest people to [[microfinance]] and as a result of access to these services, move themselvesthat are connected to the Grameen Bank. These organizations provide [[microfinance]] to very poor people. They do this to try to help poor people get out of [[poverty]]. [[Muhammad Yunus]], who started the Grameen Bank, has said that "The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world … all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them."

==History==
Inspiration is provided by the work of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, lead to the founding of Grameen Foundation Australia (GFA) in 1998. GFA works to accelerate the impact of Microfinance and Social Business on the world’s poorest people, especially women.

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[http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Business-Capitalism-Humanitys/dp/1586488244/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus]

==Other websites==

[http://grameen.org.au/ Official website]

[[Category:Non-profit organizations]]