HOW DO YOU DEFINE POVERTY?

VOICES OF THE POOR For a poor person everything is terrible—illness, humiliation, shame. We are cripples; we are afraid of everything; we depend on everyone. No one needs us. We are like garbage that everyone wants to get rid of. – MOLDOVA When I don’t have any [food to bring my family], I borrow, mainly from neighbors and friends. I feel ashamed standing before my children when I have nothing to help feed the family. I’m not well when I’m unemployed. It’s terrible. — GUINEA-BISSAU

If you are hungry, you will always be hungry; if you are poor, you will always be poor. — VIETNAM What determines poverty or well-being? The indigenous people’s destiny is to be poor. — ECUADOR What one shouldn’t lack is the sheep, what one cannot live without is food. – CHINA Corbett, Steve; Fikkert, Brian ( ). When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself (pp ). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.

BLESSED 2 BE A BLESSING

Small business development for vulnerable girls and women improves their livelihoods, creating sustainable futures for their households and communities.

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets, and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the next generation; and which contributes net benefits to other livelihoods at the local and global levels and in the short and long term." (Chambers, R. and G.R. Conway Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Practical Concepts for the 21st Century. Institute of Development; Studies DP 296, University of Sussex: Brighton.)

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

WHAT CAN I DO?

THREE WAYS TO P ARTNER WITH AND I MPACT L IVES G LOBALLY G IVE AWAY ITEM – we purchase giveaways for our conferences specifically for overseas support of projects or ministry. An example is a water cup, given to delegates with the story of the Kenya Water Tank Project. The cup costs $4 to buy, but the conference pays $8 each, with $4 per cup sent to Kenya. 125 delegates buys a tank, which costs $500 to build. Community has to build the tank base.

GIVE-AWAY ITEM Examples One time event Set budget for products Appropriate to audience Attractive Logo Scripture Number of Delegates Possibly artisan made Variety Village Represents a story Meets a need

GIVE-AWAY FUNDS BUY TANKS

ITEMS FOR PURCHASE Example: WARdrobe tee shirts Sell at the event Sales continue after event Catalog Multiple items Wide price range Logistics of shipping Timeline Income generating for producers Others Quality

TEE SHIRTS AND SOAP WARdrobe is a website where designers donate their art for shirts. Conference organizers purchase them, and sell them at the conference or councils. Mali has a soap making project under way that provides jobs. Soap is purchased inexpensively and sold at profit at the conference, with profit going to Mali project.

ARTISAN MADE PRODUCTS A conference organizer contacts TSA India to make 1000 scarves, a year in advance. The scarves are then purchased and given to conference delegates, or sold to them. Sometimes the first item is given and extras are available for purchase. Either way, the artisan has benefitted from having the work to do in her home country.

DORCUS BEAD JEWELRY

HIGH QUALITY BRINGS INTEREST

LOW VOLUME, HIGH IMPACT Hundreds of locations worldwide have opportunities for making a big difference in the lives of small groups of people. The women of Kiandutu Corps Slum are a great example. While larger productions such as Others and Noonday, affect more people, being intentional will allow partnerships with small groups trying to better their lives as well.

KIANDUTU CORPS

CORPS WOMEN

PRODUCTS HANDMADE BY WOMEN WHO HAVE COME OUT OF SEX TRAFFICKING

STORY Country location People Ages Individuals Skills Needs Pictures Video Gospel

MT ELGON

COUNTRY’S NEED Sabaot Land Defense Force 140 Pregnant High School Girls Dropped Out of School Sex Work Increased in the Area Child Soldiers Female Genital Mutilation Tradition of widows sleeping with someone of a lower social status to purify themselves Labor Trafficking Land Rights 10 Groups Started Expanded to 13

THE CENTER IS HOPE!