Investments To
Enable Social Business
In Our Community
GRAMEEN HEALTH CARE SERVICES LTD.
Providing healthcare services focusing on eye care, safe-drinking water and nursing education etc.
Grameen Health Care Services Limited (GHS) is a social business enterprise established in 2006 under Company Act, 1994. Investors in this company are Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), Grameen Kalyan (GK) and Grameen Shakti (GS).The main objectives of the company are to establish and operate hospitals, healthcare centers and mobile health clinics, pathological centers/labs for assuring quality healthcare services. It also aims to undertake necessary measures for identifying people (with emphasis on children) suffering from diseases in rural areas.The company also aspires to run training programs for doctors and other health staff and have provisions for counseling and organizing meetings, workshops, seminars etc to create health awareness among people, particular women.GHS is receiving continuous support on technical and human resource development from SEVA Foundation in USA, Aravind Eye Hospitals and Post Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology, India and funding support from Calvert Foundation through Lavelle Fund.
GRAMEEN DISTRIBUTION LTD.
Striving to create employment opportunities for the poor and make them self reliant in terms of livelihood through social business.
Grameen Distribution Limited (GDL) is one of the prominent sales and marketing based company in Bangladesh with a nation-wide presence. The company has a range of products in mobile handsets, energy efficient products, healthcare products and some other general consumer goods.With experience and high level of professionals, we have been proved as a reliable business partner. During the years of dynamic and successful work, we have developed our own principles, based on constantly refined system of customer service, extensive dealer network, highly skilled staff and focus on business requirements of our partners.We assure our customers of the highest quality standards of our products. Every product that we source signifies the symbol of superlative quality and high performance of the manufacturers.
GRAMEEN FABRICS & FASHION LTD.
The company strives to establish affordable products such as Sanitary Napkin for low-income female households specially garment workers.
Grameen Fabrics and Fashion Limited (GFFL) is a social business company wholly owned by Grameen Telecom Trust. GFFL aims at successfully establishing the concept of social business and eliminate social problems such as unemployment and poverty. With the completion of an industrial park named ‘Social Business Industrial Park’, the company will create employment opportunities’ for 10,000 underprivileged people of the country by 2020. The company strives to establish its products in local and international markets.The company will be setting up an environmentally and worker-friendly factories to manufacture composite knitwear and treated mosquito nets for protection against malaria, dengue and other mosquito transmitted illnesses.
JOINT VENTURES: Grameen Danone Foods Ltd.
Addressing malnutrition of children, particularly from poor and low-income group families through joint venture with Danone.
A Social Business Joint VentureThe Grameen Group and Groupe DANONE joined forces since March 2006 to create Grameen Danone Foods Ltd, a social business based in Bangladesh. Grameen Danone Foods Ltd’s mission is to reduce poverty by a unique proximity business model that will provide daily healthy nutrition to the poor of Bangladesh. Grameen Danone Foods Ltd is the first investment supported by ‘danone.communities’, an investment fund, created to support businesses that aim to be sustainable, but make social and societal goals their objective. Nutritional Situation in BangladeshOne child out of two in Bangladesh is suffering from malnutrition, especially in rural areas. Grameen Danone Foods’ Objectives include, bring health through nutrition at very affordable price for all Bangladeshi children; improve living conditions of the poorest of the community by involving them in all stages of the business model (supply, production, sales), creating jobs and improving local competencies; preserve non-renewable resources as much as possible; be profitable to ensure economic sustainability.
