The Dolma Development Fund was founded in 2003 as a non-profit impact investor, education sponsor and development advisor. Our mission is to use commercially sustainable methods where possible to alleviate poverty in remote areas, currently in Nepal and Ethiopia. We provide both financing and advice to local projects and businesses that have a positive social and environmental impact in their DNA, and we reinvest any returns into education and other support for our partner communities. In this way our capital is essentially recycled and used multiple times for good.

Our Community Partnership Model is at the heart of what we do. These partnerships bring us close to on-the-ground needs and cultural sensitivities, while directly involving local people in the businesses and programmes we help create. They are neither partnerships of pure investment, nor pure charity – they are partnerships based on deep and enduring friendships, friendships that share laughter and tears across the extremities of cultural diversity. We do not believe in the dogmatic simplicity of the human development spectrum which implies that the rich world has everything to teach the poor. Rather, we live in awe of cultures leading timeless, peaceful lives according to the limits of the land. Such cultures have plenty to teach the so-called West about truly sustainable and lower-stress lifestyles. Thus our donors and advisors learn from our partner communities in a mutual exchange of human expertise.

And friends don’t charge. Our team is 100% voluntary which means that 0% of your donations go to paying staff overhead – it goes directly to our projects and culturally-sensitive education that gives these cultures strength to benefit from the world without being washed away in a tide of modernisation.

We invite you to join us in celebrating humanity’s endless lessons…and having fun along the way.

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