Thanks to your generosity, a tribe with which we have worked for several years now has clean water.Continue reading A New Well Brings Hope
Perseverance After COVID
Life had improved through sponsorship, but COVID flattened his mom’s business and they lost their house. Continue reading Perseverance After COVID
Expanded Self Help Group Launches
Can social programs truly become self-sustaining? We are going to find out. In January, we launched a project to help 20 struggling self-help groups in western Ethiopia learn to multiply themselves with their own funding. Continue reading Expanded Self Help Group Launches
Can Social Enterprises Be Self-Sustaining?
“Wholly sustainable social enterprises are a myth”, declared Alastair Wilson in 2017. When you work with people with less education in less desirable environments and pay higher costs than your competitors, it is harder to turn a profit. Continue reading Can Social Enterprises Be Self-Sustaining?
Sustainability: Western Propaganda or Realistic Hope?
Welayita certainly doesn’t lack natural beauty. And yet the people remain desperately poor, many convinced that they cannot rise out of poverty without outside help. Pastor Getachew is on a mission to change that. Continue reading Sustainability: Western Propaganda or Realistic Hope?