[1][2] The foundation provides assistance to poor people in the Global South to pull themselves out of poverty through microfinancing.
[5] The Strømme Foundation conducts long-term development work with local partner organizations in the Global South.
The foundation has three regional offices: in Kampala, Uganda; Bamako, Mali; and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
[5] The foundation is named after Olav Kristian Strømme, a priest and chaplain at Oddernes Church, who carried out extensive fundraising work.
Proceeds from Operation Day's Work in 2008 went to the Strømme Foundation's Shonglap project for young people in Bangladesh.