Post Tagged with: "microfinance"

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  [the africa diaries] day six: starting with the next group

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  I was finally an accomplished missionary! Well, at least in my mind I was. After all, I had just finished my first full sessions with one of the churches in Kenya, and now I was off to another. I knew that this next group that we were about to work with [...]
   
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  [the africa diaries] day five: finishing with our first group

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  Finally! Today is my day to teach! Well, at least for half of it… Day two of our lesson plan calls for two important subjects. First up was the financial session. In this session we covered such basic, yet critically important, topics like keeping your business and personal money separate, and [...]
   
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  [the africa diaries] day four: first day of teaching

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  Here we go…    This is what we came for! Our first day of teaching has arrived! And one of the first things that I learned today was that schedules (time) in Africa are very different than they are back in the States. I think that our start time was supposed [...]
   
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  [the africa diaries] day three: visiting the clients

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  This was the big day that I had been waiting for! Today our plan was to meet with the people at the offices of Thika Community Development Trust (TCDT). They are the Five Talents partner that runs the local microfinance program. After that, we were going to go out and meet some [...]
   
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  [the africa diaries] day two: the road to thika

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  My first morning in Africa! I could not wait to look out my window to finally see what Africa looked like! But I had no idea how quickly this trip would start impacting me. The place that we stayed that first night was actually a really nice guest house that was run [...]
   
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  [the africa diaries] day one: arriving in nairobi

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  I was only at the airport before this trip started to impact me. As I sat there waiting to board my first flight, I couldn’t help but to wonder what this mission trip was going to do to me. Would I come home a different person? How would my heart and [...]
   
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  the africa diaries

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  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 [...]
   
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  an escape from poverty

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  If you are a regular at this site, then you probably already know that one thing that is important to me is the fight against extreme poverty. There is a very large part of our world that goes to bed hungry every night, and because of their economic situations they lack the resources to maintain [...]
   
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  poverty mission to africa '09

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  *** IMPORTANT UPDATE *** Since returning from this amazing trip, I have been sharing my journals and other thoughts in a new series called the africa diaries. Check it out and share your thoughts! Over a year ago, God starting doing some amazing work in my heart. Through some studies [...]
   
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  microentrepreneur wins award

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  by Kelli Ross Vasanti Uikey struggled against extreme poverty to become a successful microentrepreneur. Now, this 45-year-old mother of two has been named the 2008 National Runner-up and the Social Responsibility Category Winner (West and Central) by the Citi Micro Entrepreneur Awards program. She was chosen out of 2,500 nominees [...]
   
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  opportunity: invest your talents

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  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” [...]