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Strømme Microfinance East Africa Limited (SMF EA Ltd) is a company limited
by shares, owned by Stromme Microfinance AS Norway, Strømme Foundation
Eastern Africa, Solidarite Internationale pour le Developement et
l’Investissement (SIDI) and Catholic Organisation for Relief and
Development Aid (CORDAID). Working in the four East African countries of
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan, SMF EA Ltd envisages a world free
from poverty. The company’s mission is to provide, on a sustainable basis,
market responsive, financial services and capacity building support to
financial and business service providers to enhance access to financial
services by the enterprising poor in the East African region. SMF EA Ltd
provides medium term whole sale loans or institutional loans which include
commercial loans and housing microfinance loans, equity acquisition, support
to business development and capacity building for microfinance clients, loan
guarantees, and community managed microfinance through the self help group
methodology. The overriding aim is to improve access to financial services by
the poor to enable them improve their livelihoods. Hide