Company Profile

Company Description:

The Hand in Hand Group is a young global family of development organisations with the goal to create ten million jobs among the poor. We are currently expanding our operations into Kenya, with an initial goal of creating 50,000 jobs among marginalised women, and are looking for a Country Director.

Hand in Hand was established in India, through collaboration between global business leader Percy Barnevik and an innovative Indian NGO-leader Kalpana Sankar and her team. In seven years 550,000 women have been mobilised and some 440,000 familybased enterprises promoted at the core hub of Hand in Hand Tamil Nadu in India.

Hand in Hand organisations also operate in Southern Africa and Afghanistan. Funds come from private entrepreneurs, corporations and multi- and bilateral institutions such as FMO, SIDA, Norad and IFC.