
Expanded Self Help Group Launches
Can social programs truly become self-sustaining? We are going to find out. On January 1, we launched a project to help 20 struggling self-help groups in western Ethiopia learn to multiply themselves with their own funding. If we are successful, these 20 groups in four years will have become 100 groups helping some 1500 families and starting new groups among their neighbors—without any further help from us. In 2013 our child sponsorship program in Addis Ababa began eleven self-help groups for the parents or guardians of our sponsored... [more]