CHRF -MICRO ENTERPRISES


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WHAT WE DO MICRO-ENTERPRISE

MICRO-ENTERPRISE WE CAN END WORLD HUNGER

Help us end world poverty,
despair and war

Poverty causes disease, despair and death.

It also causes war. When people have no job and no hope, they are more likely to join in violent conflict to take what they can’t create.

When people are self-sufficient enough to provide for their family’s needs, there is no need for conflict.

Our vision for world peace:

• Break the self-perpetuating cycle of poverty and conflict by providing deserving families an opportunity of self-sufficiency through a $100 small business loan.
• Thousands of families then create more jobs, as well as providing new goods and services like food and clothing) for the community.
• Families pay the loan back which then goes on to help another family.
• Create 10,000 family businesses every year!

Now we can do it for just $100 per family

Bringing Hope to African Families

Our goal is to establish 100,000 businesses for just one million dollars in the next 10 years in Africa. (This is done as people repay their loans.) 100,000 small family businesses will revolutionize Africa! Businesses can be just a small fruit stand, selling ice or Cokes on a street corner, a simple janitorial service with a broom and a mop, many small things. In Africa, where there are no big stores, small things will work well.

Between 2004 and 2006 over 150 businesses were started in ZZana, Uganda with a payback rate of 90%. Businesses included retail shops, snack and soft drink kiosks, fish vending, restaurants, grocery shops, salons, laundry shops plus more. 95% of the borrowers are women and 86% live on less than one dollar a day.

In Charis, Uganda, 699 families were ready to start their business, but there were only enough funds for 132 families. With your help we can fund 500 more families in 2007-2008.

Our team in Kenya has give a hand to 14,000 farmers. Through training and loans, individuals are skilled in the business aspect of goat ranching for milk and meat, potatoe farming, sheep, poultry and bee keeping.