Barclays
Barclays is an international financial services organisation, which has an annual income in excess of £20 billion and more than 27 million customers around the world. Barclays assistance for this project is part of its new Banking on brighter futures programme, which has pledged £150 million to different projects for the next five years, coupled with 150,000 hours of employees’ volunteering time.
AMREF and Barclays
The Katine Project, Soroti District, Uganda
Barclays has pledged £1.5m to the Katine project, which includes an upfront donation of £500,000 to get the programme underway and a further £1m in match-funding for readers' donations over the next three years. Barclays will also use the skills of its employees to work with AMREF in Katine to provide better access to financial services and to build the capacity of communities to manage their small businesses and their money.
"Barclays is delighted to be working in true partnership with AMREF. Our partnership draws on the strengths and expertise of both organisations, enabling us together to reach some of the poorest people in Africa. Barclays works with AMREF because AMREF is well placed to understand Africa and to develop solutions to poverty that are real and lasting. Our partnership motivates and inspires our colleagues, making them proud to work for Barclays.” Susie Hares - Global Community Partnerships Manager