Fundación Paraguaya is a leading edge self-sufficient social enterprise

Social enterprise

A social enterprise is an organization that applies business strategies to achieving philanthropic goals. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit....

 founded in Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

 in 1985 that seeks to develop innovative solutions to poverty and unemployment, and proactively disseminate them throughout the world.

The Foundation enables people of limited resources to create jobs and increase their family income, promoting urban and rural entrepreneurship through three interrelated strategies:

• A Microfinance program that supports microentrepreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs generally relegated by other microfinance institutions.
• An economic education program for children and young people (Junior Achievement
  Junior Achievement
  Junior Achievement or JA or JA Worldwide is a non-profit youth organization that was founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and senator Winthrop M. Crane. JA focuses on educating kids in K-12 about the free enterprise system...
  
  ).
• A self-sufficient agricultural high school that teaches organic agriculture and business skills to low income youth from rural areas to transform them from “poor small landholders” into “rural entrepreneurs”.
• An international replication program for self-sufficient schools alongside its UK sister organization Teach A Man To Fish

External links

• Official Site
• Teach A Man To Fish