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BYU, Pope Foundation help Tanzania villages

This sounds like a wonderful program. I wonder how U students could get involved in economic development with the organization. I wish the article said how to contact the Pope Foundation--a google search did not produce a website for them.

This is good to help out

Please explain who they are.

I was curious about the Pope Foundation myself so I did a little digging and here is what I found:

There is very little information about The Pope foundation itself but they run a UN NGO called Yehu Microfinance. Yehu is a trust, offering microcredit to women in Kenya. No other African Country is specifically named but in Kenya they have 40 full-time employees and six branches. They have a website where they list the address of the Pope Foundation, which is shared by Yehu. Email addresses are listed on the site, I am not giving the URL's because I don't think DesNews likes that, but you can find them easily.

The Pope Foundation has also started a company called Coast Coconut Farms which represents the oil production of the women mentioned in the article. CoastCoconutFarms has a website as well. In case you are interested you can support their efforts by purchasing products made from their oil from a company called Basa Body who purchases all of the oil produced by Coast Coconut Farms for their skin care products.


You can find a detailed financial profile at MixMarket for Yehu.

I hope that helps.

This is a great thing happened. I like to contact this group from BYU. Who would be the contact person there at BYU? It is very interesting as our similar organization would like to have the same set up. Please provide me with some information on this BYU group.