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Apr 15, 2016, 2:22 PM
Our Income Generating Activities (IGA) scheme is indisputably a high-impact and sustainable method of helping a family lift themselves out of the worst extremes of poverty. But why is it that 95% of parents starting a business with us are mums? Why don’t the dads engage?
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Feb 17, 2016, 5:37 PM
​We love it when our Income Generating Activities (IGA) make a significant difference to mums and their families. A business start-up can help lift a family from the worst effects of poverty in just months, and the benefits just keep coming. Jennifer is a great example.
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Jan 11, 2016, 4:12 PM
A donation sent for a sponsored child’s birthday went a lot further than that… and resulted in a lasting, wide-reaching benefit for the whole family!
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Oct 27, 2015, 4:26 PM
Since Rose approached Child of Hope’s Income Generating Activity team in 2013 for a business grant and training – to set up a small business selling vegetables – she and her husband have been able to purchase a small plot of land where they will build a home one day.
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Sep 22, 2015, 3:22 PM
Since Rebecca set up a business with our help – selling soap, sugar, cooking oil and pancakes she makes herself – in less than a year she has been able to afford to send two of her other children to local schools and to move her family to a two-bedroom home instead of the previous one small room. That's her business stall in the background by the side of the road.
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Jul 23, 2015, 3:33 PM
​We thought you’d like to see products made by some of our pupils’ mums – now for sale online in the USA!