Empowering people
Addressing poverty
Changed lives
Miriam
Miriam attended a 5000Plus seminar in Kenya. She is a widow who said "I am so poor I can’t afford a loaf of bread". She went home and prayed about doing a livelihood project and took advice from friends. She decided to raise hybrid chickens for meat. She had no chicken shed so used a bedroom in her house, borrowed equipment and was able to obtain 100 chicks and successfully rear them. At first it was hard to get a market but she persisted, trying hotels and hospitals. When we next saw her six months later she was on the fourth brood and by now people were phoning her to buy her whole batch. Miriam is now a community volunteer for 5000Plus helping others with their livelihood projects. She has assisted relatives with school fees and set aside money for a dedicated chicken house and also has diversified starting other projects. She says "Now I can not only eat bread but a cake if I want too".
Jane
Jane is a widow and school teacher living in a small Kenyan village. After the 5000Plus training she and some friends took a loan for a poultry project. She went to great efforts to repay the loan despite some members of the group being dispersed during Post-Election violence. Jane went on to work with several hundred HIV+ people using the principles learned though 5000Plus. She started a community group of 20 who began doing co-operative livelihood projects as well as individual ones. This experience enabled them to access specialist training in raising dairy goats through an international NGO. She also introduced practical income generation projects into her school where a tree nursery provided a service to the community, raised funds for her science classes and taught the children practical life-skills. Now Jane is a highly valued and respected community volunteer for 5000Plus.
Lamjung Valley
One of our partners in Nepal introduced this lady from the Tamang tribe to the message of 5000Plus. Inspired by what she heard and having moved with her family to a town where the tarmac road finishes and the trekkers start the Annapurna trail, she began a new livelihood project. Together with her husband she secured a small loan to buy a couple of piglets and construct a pig sty. They are able to collect waste food for pig-swill from the tourist hotels nearby. The project has been a great success and they have not only been able to repay the loan but have expanded greatly, building more sties and raising more pigs for sale in the local town. They have built a new home, paid for their children’s education and set aside money for purchasing land for an even bigger enterprise. Seeing their success others now come to learn from them their skills in raising pigs.
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