The Poverty Alleviation Fund

TPAF is a non-political, non-sectarian, U.S. non-governmental organization with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

* Microfinance loans for income generating purposes to over 2,200 women had significantly increased household incomes
* Practical, message oriented villager training contributed to improved health, nutrition and hygiene practices for over 25,000 families
* TPAF assistance results were generally appreciated by local leaders and community beneficiaries.

In 2009 TPAF began working in Yunnan Province in Southwest China, where new programs were established to achieve UN Millennium Development Goals in Shangri’la County. In 2011 TPAF extended its programs to assist disadvantaged women in Gaza.

TPAF’s main program initiative in China is intended to attain UN Millennium Development Goals in 83 villages of Shangri'la County. The program is designed to achieve quantitative and qualitative targets for basic income and food security for 1,500 families, improved health conditions, and strengthened management and preservation of remaining forest and other natural resources.

Program activities include provision of irrigation channels, cash crops, livestock, household vegetable greenhouses, rural credit, solar water heaters and fuel efficient stoves, agricultural extension training, village health training, and vocational skills training facilitating off-farm employment.