Poverty is the absence of capital. Capital may be saved cash to buy what’s needed to survive, or it may be intellectual capital to know how to get out of poverty, or it may be an infrastructure to support a community in hard times or an infrastructure to help the community prosper. Whatever the form, it represents an investment of effort and material in the past. At ANVIL we believe that the provision of long-term capital is vital if Africa is to compete in the global economy