GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

HOW DO YOU DEFINE POVERTY?

VOICES OF THE POOR• For a poor person everything is terrible—illness, humiliation, shame. We

are cripples; we are afraid of everything; we depend on everyone. No one needs us. We are like garbage that everyone wants to get rid of. – MOLDOVA

• When I don’t have any [food to bring my family], I borrow, mainly from neighbors and friends. I feel ashamed standing before my children when I have nothing to help feed the family. I’m not well when I’m unemployed. It’s terrible. — GUINEA-BISSAU

• If you are hungry, you will always be hungry; if you are poor, you will always be poor. — VIETNAM

• What determines poverty or well-being? The indigenous people’s destiny is to be poor. — ECUADOR

• What one shouldn’t lack is the sheep, what one cannot live without is food. – CHINA

Corbett, Steve; Fikkert, Brian (2012-04-20). When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself (pp. 50-51). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.

BLESSED 2 BE A BLESSING

Small business development for vulnerable girls and women improves their livelihoods, creating sustainable futures for their households and

communities.

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS• A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims

and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets, and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the next generation; and which contributes net benefits to other livelihoods at the local and global levels and in the short and long term."  (Chambers, R. and G.R. Conway. 1991. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Practical Concepts for the 21st Century. Institute of Development; Studies DP 296, 1991. University of Sussex: Brighton.)

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

WHAT CAN I DO?

THREE WAYS TO PARTNER WITH AND IMPACT LIVES GLOBALLY• GIVE AWAY ITEM– we purchase giveaways for our

conferences specifically for overseas support of projects or ministry. An example is a water cup, given to delegates with the story of the Kenya Water Tank Project. The cup costs $4 to buy, but the conference pays $8 each, with $4 per cup sent to Kenya. 125 delegates buys a tank, which costs $500 to build. Community has to build the tank base.

GIVE-AWAY ITEM

• Examples

• One time event

• Set budget for products

• Appropriate to audience

• Attractive

• Logo

• Scripture

• Number of Delegates

• Possibly artisan made

• Variety Village

• Represents a story

• Meets a need

GIVE-AWAY FUNDS BUY TANKS

ITEMS FOR PURCHASE

• Example: WARdrobe tee shirts

• Sell at the event

• Sales continue after event

• Catalog

• Multiple items

• Wide price range

• Logistics of shipping

• Timeline

• Income generating for producers

• Others• Quality

WARDROBE

TEE SHIRTS AND SOAP

• WARdrobe is a website where designers donate their art for shirts. Conference organizers purchase them, and sell them at the conference or councils.

• Mali has a soap making project under way that provides jobs. Soap is purchased inexpensively and sold at profit at the conference, with profit going to Mali project.

ARTISAN MADE PRODUCTS • A conference organizer contacts TSA India to make 1000

scarves, a year in advance. The scarves are then purchased and given to conference delegates, or sold to them. Sometimes the first item is given and extras are available for purchase. Either way, the artisan has benefitted from having the work to do in her home country.

DIANE AND MAGGIE MAKING JEWELRY

DORCUS BEAD JEWELRY

HIGH QUALITY BRINGS INTEREST

LOW VOLUME, HIGH IMPACT

• Hundreds of locations worldwide have opportunities for making a big difference in the lives of small groups of people. The women of Kiandutu Corps Slum are a great example. While larger productions such as Others and Noonday, affect more people, being intentional will allow partnerships with small groups trying to better their lives as well.

KIANDUTU CORPS

CORPS WOMEN

PRODUCTS HANDMADE BY WOMEN WHO HAVE COME OUT OF SEX TRAFFICKING

SALLY ANN IS NOW OTHERS

STORY

• Country location

• People

• Ages

• Individuals

• Skills

• Needs

• Pictures

• Video

• Gospel

MT ELGON

COUNTRY’S NEED• Sabaot Land Defense Force

• 140 Pregnant High School Girls Dropped Out of School

• Sex Work Increased in the Area

• Child Soldiers

• Female Genital Mutilation

• Tradition of widows sleeping with someone of a lower social status to purify themselves

• Labor Trafficking

• Land Rights

• 10 Groups Started Expanded to 13

THE CENTER IS HOPE!