Mwitikira Women Start Income-Generating Businesses
Life is hard in Mwitikira especially during times of drought like East Africa has experienced this year. Crops don't grow, which means there is little food and no cash for other needs. Women in the village are willing to work, but lack of capital makes it difficult to start income-generating businesses.
Last Christmas, the Global Missions Committee sold crafts on Ribbons Row, 2010 made by a group of Mwitikira women called the Good Samaritans. Suzanne Johnson delivered the proceeds in February, 2011. These women will now have money to help feed their chlidren and pay for school needs.
In the winter of 2011 St. Paul's connected with a group called Village Savings and Loans. In turn this group visited Mwitikira and helped 120 women set up groups based on a methodology for a savings-based approach to pooling resources and providing capital with low interest rates. Pictured below you see some very happy, proud Mwitikira women holding the lockboxes used for the savings.
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