

The Angel Alliance Fund (TAAF)

“As the candidates receive, we want to empower them to look for similar opportunity in their future business ventures.”
The Angel Alliance Fund



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Fitah’s Story Fitah, a young man from Madagascar in his upper 20’s studied music in the US before going back home to teach it. He realized a couple years into running his music institute that he wanted to do more to help the people of his country. After getting introduced to Business Connect’s Africa Director through a mutual colleague, Fitah and a couple business partners put together a plan for marketing water filters to NGOs working all over Madagascar and selling them to individuals in the capital city. The one big thing that was lacking was seed capital to buy the initial inventory to get the business off the ground. With an investor funded loan through C4W/Business Connect, Fitah and his partners were able to procure an initial shipment of Clarity and Village water filters. They have utilized some local marketing students to help develop sales strategies and have been busy implementing those ideas over the last 6 months. The road hasn’t been smooth or easy, but they have learned a lot about what does and doesn’t work. Fitah has been able to set up a small business to give back to the people of Madagascar because of the generosity of investors and donors in the US who see the benefit of creating businesses as a way of delivering aid and hope around the world. The initial funding is being paid back to C4W/Business Connect as products are sold, in order to enable this to be replicated elsewhere in the world.________________________________________________
A Tale of Better Things Cosas Mejores para su Vida, S.A. (Better Things for your Life, Inc. – in English) sought to help the people of Guatemala. Their management team was involved in various social service projects and were in need of a clean water solution. The Business Connect entered into their arena. At the start they were looking for a simple pay as you go solution for the projects they were involved with. Then the need flipped. Other programs saw what they were doing and began asking for clean water solutions as well, their projects grew to a volume which required investment to meet the demand. Investment funding was made available through the C4W/Business Connect team. These funds have been consistently paid back and more product continues to be sold through this business venture in Latin America because of the capital they have had access to. They are now part of a larger cooperative supporting 30 employees in a sustainable business model.