Post Tagged with: "five talents"

  • fight #poverty with @fivetalents [november 1-7]

    fight #poverty with @fivetalents [november 1-7]

    In The Unlikely Missionary: From Pew-Warmer to Poverty-Fighter you hear the story about how I found passion and purpose for my faith as I studied the issue of extreme poverty. Then you follow my journey as I discover the impact of microenterprise through sharing the stories of an organization called Five Talents, even [...]

     
  • @fivetalents tanzania program featured on @bbc one

    @fivetalents tanzania program featured on @bbc one

    Five Talents has been featured as charity of the month on BBC One’s Lifeline program. See the 10-minute broadcast right here… Lifeline is the BBC’s monthly television charity appeal program. In May, Five Talents was the selected charity. For more than 20 years, Lifeline has helped raise money for and [...]

     
  • wordless wednesday: well water in kenya

    wordless wednesday: well water in kenya

     
  • how a bank is bringing reconcilliation to a sudanese villiage

    how a bank is bringing reconcilliation to a sudanese villiage

    by Kelli Ross LIETNHOM, SUDAN — For Deng Agei conflict is a part of life. After living through two decades of civil war in South Sudan, relative peace had come to his village of Lietnhom, where he opened a microbusiness and sold a variety of household goods and food items. [...]

     
  • the africa diaries

    the africa diaries

    Amazon.com Widgets In May of 2009 I joined a team of businessmen from around the United States as Five Talents International (FTI) sent us out for a Business as Mission (BAM) Trip to Kenya and Uganda. FTI is a faith-based organization that fights poverty with microfinance. They work in areas [...]

     
  • live online q+a: fighting poverty in africa

    live online q+a: fighting poverty in africa

    Lately I’ve really been trying to step up my game with using new tools to develop the community here. I’ve created the BibleDude.net group on Facebook, which is now over 720 members strong. I’ve also recently started using Twitter to connect with people, and have discovered many new frieds there as [...]

     
  • opportunity: invest your talents

    opportunity: invest your talents

    Matthew 25:14-30 provides an amazing teaching (in parable) from Jesus in which we learn that if we do not invest our ‘talents’ then we will loose them. Of course there is much more that can be said about this parable, but my emphasis on the “use it or loose it” [...]

     
  • children of microfinance: fernando in bolivia

    children of microfinance: fernando in bolivia

    by Kelli Ross Fernando is proud to walk to school in his brand new shirt and shoes. “My teacher said that I look really handsome — I love her a lot!” María, Fernando’s mom, started a knitting business in Tarija, Bolivia, with the help of a Five Talents’ partner, Semillas [...]

     
  • children of microfinance: irene in kenya

    children of microfinance: irene in kenya

    by Kelli Ross Irene is one of the top students in her 4th grade class, and her mother is very proud of her achievements. Without the help of the Thika Community Development Trust, Irene may not have been able to attend – or have had such success – in school. [...]

     
  • children of microfinance: rosita in peru

    children of microfinance: rosita in peru

    by Kelli Ross Before Five Talents helped, Rosita and her family suffered from severe malnutrition. Six-year-old Rosita Elizabeth and her family had moved from a small Peruvian city in the Amazon jungle.  And her parents searched in vain for odd jobs – just to survive in Lima. Rosita in Peru [...]

     
  • children of microfinance: akot in sudan

    children of microfinance: akot in sudan

    by Kelli Ross Thanks to the income his mother now earns from her small food business, 10-year-old Akot has begun first grade, the first step toward his dream of becoming a doctor. Ahok, Akot’s mother, used small loans to begin selling prepared food items, like vegetable dishes and sandwiches, in [...]

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