In April a generous supporter donated $200 to be used however was best.
After discussing with the boys, with the manager in contact with the boys, and evaluating all our previous work, it was unanimously agreed the best way to use the money was for business start ups for the boys.
Everything we do in Club Anbesa is designed to enable sustainability, responsibility, courage, faith, hope, and character. Unfortunately many "aid programs" enable begging, laziness, and dependence. We want to do things different, so a lot of thought and prayer went into this business growing initiative.
First off, a training was given by a volunteer local business man who taught the boys about entrepreneurship, looking at their new business as an opportunity to grow, not a hand out, and from the reports the training went well and was received eagerly by the participants. This is a HUGE success!
Before I agreed to the training I made sure the business man understood to treat the boys with respect- a problem found often among society is that they are looked down upon. And the boys generally become shy in society.
(Thanks to the housing initiative, this is slowly becoming less of a problem)
Part of the training was about loans. The business start up is NOT a hand out, but a LOAN! The boys have agreed to pay back 90% of the micro loan within a time frame.
Since this is a pilot run, we only chose the boys who are now in houses and paying rent, and the loans were limited to 200 bir.
A thorough financial report is being made up of the cost of each product purchased for the boys with receipts which will be posted when I post the April and May financial reports.
This is an EXCITING new endeavor for our boys and for us involved with them! We will keep updates on how it is working out!
After discussing with the boys, with the manager in contact with the boys, and evaluating all our previous work, it was unanimously agreed the best way to use the money was for business start ups for the boys.
Everything we do in Club Anbesa is designed to enable sustainability, responsibility, courage, faith, hope, and character. Unfortunately many "aid programs" enable begging, laziness, and dependence. We want to do things different, so a lot of thought and prayer went into this business growing initiative.First off, a training was given by a volunteer local business man who taught the boys about entrepreneurship, looking at their new business as an opportunity to grow, not a hand out, and from the reports the training went well and was received eagerly by the participants. This is a HUGE success!
Before I agreed to the training I made sure the business man understood to treat the boys with respect- a problem found often among society is that they are looked down upon. And the boys generally become shy in society.
(Thanks to the housing initiative, this is slowly becoming less of a problem)Part of the training was about loans. The business start up is NOT a hand out, but a LOAN! The boys have agreed to pay back 90% of the micro loan within a time frame.
Since this is a pilot run, we only chose the boys who are now in houses and paying rent, and the loans were limited to 200 bir.
A thorough financial report is being made up of the cost of each product purchased for the boys with receipts which will be posted when I post the April and May financial reports.
This is an EXCITING new endeavor for our boys and for us involved with them! We will keep updates on how it is working out!
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