About villageTell

villageTell is a champion organization designed to help catalyze a worldwide Village Phone movement – bringing affordable and sustainable communications to the rural poor through existing cell phone networks and infrastructures. Any person or village within 35km of an existing base station (cell tower) can use a small antenna to boost the reception signal of a cell phone and connect to the existing GSM network. villageTell in NOT a phone company, but works in partnership with existing telecommunications companies to expand rural infrastructure development.

villageTell founders have a vision to utilize the Village Phone program to make an eternal impact on the people and villages that can be reached. Our selection process of the recipients of the phone kits and small business plan will involve the consideration of the individual’s ability to make a personal impact of the people for God.

About Grameen Technology Center

The Grameen Technology Center, an initiative of Grameen Foundation, was inspired by some of the early successes of technology-oriented Grameen companies in Bangladesh that were established by Professor Muhammad Yunus. The Center leverages the power of microfinance and technology to create innovative and sustainable solutions that will enable MFIs to empower their clients to escape poverty more rapidly. It focuses on technology that:

• makes microfinance operations more efficient
• creates income-generating opportunities for the rural poor 
• provides poor communities access to information and resources

About Village Phone

Village Phone brings affordable telecommunication access to the rural poor in a way that is both sustainable and profitable. Through for-profit and non-profit partnerships, Village Phone links the telecommunications sector with the microfinance sector to enable microfinance clients to borrow the money needed to establish a Village Phone business in their rural communities. These grassroots entrepreneurs, Village Phone Operators, then rent the use of the phone on a per-call basis providing both affordable telecommunications access in their community while earning enough to repay their loan and raise their level of income.