History
NamasteDirect grew out of a program of the Katalysis Partnership, an organization that Bob Graham founded in 1984 and that recently transferred full ownership of its institution-building program to the Katalysis Network of Central America. The Network is now headquartered in Honduras and is run by its Central American NGO members. In September 2004, Bob Graham founded NamasteDirect with the intent of continuing to support some of the smaller organizations of the Katalysis Network, specifically those that still depend on grant money to reach some of the more marginalized and harder-to-reach rural microcredit borrowers.
Since its founding, NamasteDirect has funded microloans to capitalize the tiny enterprises of over 4,000 women in rural communities of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. The implementing organizations are FAPE (Foundation for Assistance to Small Enterprises) in Guatemala City, Puente de Amistad (Friendship Bridge) in Panajachel, Edubanco (Care) in Chichicastenango, CES in Nebaj, and AlSol in San Cristobal de las Casas.
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