Small Businesses Save Lives!

Posted by Bethany on May 17th, 2013 0
Small Businesses

Boridiko in her shop

Mudiyambo, Ethiopia

 This is just one amazing story from GHNI leaders in Ethiopia about women starting small businesses to help their families:

Boridiko lives with her husband in a small round hut.  In addition to this, she has a small shop which is made from sticks and covered with plastic sheeting.  Our TCD worker asked her, “What are you doing?”  Boridiko said “I am shop kipper.”  [shopkeeper]  My friend ask her, “How and when did you start this shop and who helped you?”   She said that several months ago she joined a TCD group that was formed by GHNI & she attended TCD classes on how to start small businesses to generate income.

 

“They taught us different kinds of methods and possibles to create jobs.  After I learned this, I opened this shop.  At the time, the task was full of challenges because the village has no access to markets and no start-up capital for small businesses. However, I decided to go for it when I saw that my future was bright.”

 

In our village, 12 women started different types of work through small businesses.  Eleven women are still at it and have started to repay the loans that GHNI provided.  Boridiko tells her friends, “I can show how GHNI can help the people.”

 In developing nations, like Ethiopia, small businesses can be the difference between having confidence that there will be a meal on the table that day or not.  It’s women like Boridiko that learn to make that difference for her family. 

Fruit of the Faithful

Posted by Bethany on May 15th, 2013 0
Fruit of the Faithful

Gambo Ya’u is proud of his garden

Dogon Gada, Nigeria

 “Gambo Ya’u, only 13 years old, a relative of Sarki Ya’u, has been fortunate to listen to our Transformational Community Development (TCD) teachings on food, miracle acre, faith garden, balanced diet. Impacted by these teachings, he decided to plant a small area of vegetables close to the village stream. He is faithful to go there every morning and evening to water it. He said,

“I don’t want my family to buy vegetables this year. We will get all our vegetable supplies from my small garden and I will sell whatever excess I have to make small money.”

This is just one example of the transformation happening in Dogon Gada.  After a recent visit by a Partner Team from the U.S., this village has been deeply encourage and motivated to continue working hard and be faithful to their villages development.  Here is the rest of the report from the GHNI team in Nigeria,

 “We have made much progress in TCD in many different areas.  After attending several of our TCD lessons on food, the Village Chief has planted a nursery of chili peppers. He plans to transplant the peppers at the end of April. Our Women Empowerment (Tailoring Centre) project will soon be up and running as they generate income doing sewing and bead-work.  We have just put up a 4-classroom block for the village school.

“Much of the work was done with the help of a combined team of volunteers from Nigeria and a Partner Team from the US.  The roof will be added next week.  Although these are not all of the current projects, one more project we want to mention is that a team of volunteer doctors and nurses did consultation and handed out medications at a recent Medical Clinic.  The general health of the people has improved tremendously following the TCD lessons.”

There are many more exciting plans for the future, including finishing the classroom project, three seed projects as a way of opening new villages for TCD, launching a goat loan project and a village pharmacy, just to name a few! It is the faithful heart of these villagers that has helped change their own lives.

Doctor’s Heart Brings Wellness

Posted by Bethany on May 13th, 2013

O-Town, Turkey GHNI leaders in Turkey recently reported on the growing success in improving the wellness of O-Town because of this doctor’s heart for his people, “In spite of freezing temperatures and drifts of snow, a dental team with a partner organization made the arduous journey to O-Town.  Dr K accompanied them.  With the permission [...]

Health Education Saves Lives

Posted by Bethany on May 10th, 2013

Tuka, Ethiopia The following story, from our GHNI team in Ethiopia, tells of a woman who, because of her Health Education classes, has changed the way she and her family lives so that they can avoid the diseases that riddle so many people every day.  It is through Transformational Community Development (TCD) that GHNI educates [...]

Village Transformation Week – Kenya!

Posted by Bethany on May 8th, 2013

Jeff Power, GHNI leader, tells of his experiences of the village transformation in Gambella over the course of 5 years. Gambella, Kenya They could have killed each other with machetes, right in front of me. Boru, Hussein and Kamal hail from three different tribal villages that were spilling one another’s blood just two years ago. [...]

Racing for Water

Posted by Bethany on May 6th, 2013

Tanah Keke, Indonesia A year ago, the women of Tanah Keke would race to the local well in the middle of the night to get water for their family.   In less than four minutes, you can see a village transform from racing for water in the middle of the night to having enough water [...]

Save A Mother’s Life!

Posted by Bethany on May 1st, 2013

Honor your Mom and help save another Mother’s life! We bring you an important message from our president, “This is Hal and Lana Jones, Leaders of our great staff around the world of GHNI.  We want to invite you to join us and many friends to use this great month to give a tribute to [...]

News Behind the News: April 2013

Posted by Bethany on April 30th, 2013

Section 1: GHNI Focus Countries Here’s GHNI’s news behind the news headlines around the world… AFGHANISTAN Women’s Rights, One Tribe at a Time One small success in the struggle for women’s rights in Afghanistan is reported by IRIN in an article which starts with the story of a woman who comes to a woman’s refuge [...]

Education “The New Dawn” for Gambella

Posted by Bethany on April 26th, 2013

This month, Gambella, Kenya, celebrated its graduation from all five areas of Transformational Community Development (TCD).  They know that just because they’ve finished GHNI’s program, that doesn’t mean that their work is done.  Here is how the GHNI National Leaders in Kenya put it, “Halima is the pride of this village. Many girls drop out [...]

Transferable Transformation

Posted by Bethany on April 24th, 2013

Tiripur, India Through a strong partnership with a like-minded organization, the team in India has come across some exciting successes.  GHNI National Leader of India shares the excitement: “Exit strategies are just as important as beginning strategies.  This abundantly successful project in Tirupur, India is no exception.  As we met with key leaders who have [...]