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Salah Goss

Title Program Officer, Financial Services for the Poor
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Salah Goss is an associate program officer with the foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor initiative.

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Mobile Money Services Have Arrived in Haiti!

January 10, 2011 / Salah Goss

Today we announced that Digicel, Haiti’s leading cell phone company, won a $2.5 million prize for helping to make mobile money a reality in Haiti. Digicel’s service, Tcho Tcho Mobile (which is slang for money in Creole), is offering Haitians an alternative to long and costly trips to  pick up money sent by friends and family, waiting in long queues for salaries, or the insecurity of carrying cash. Haitians can now send, receive, and store money through their mobile phones without traveling to overcrowded banks or money transfer houses.

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Mobilizing Haiti’s Recovery

June 08, 2010 / Claire Alexandre, Salah Goss

While the situation in Haiti is still dire after January’s devastating earthquake, many efforts are underway to rebuild and improve people’s lives with access to food, water, shelter, and health care. But there’s one equally important, though often overlooked, need facing Haitians now: getting access to money and managing their cash.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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