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Trainers
Trainers enable the setting up of Village Savings and Loan
Associations (VSLAs), and provide business skills. These involve groups of twenty five people, 80% of whom tend to be women, getting together on a weekly basis to save their money together, lend money to each other for business
start-ups and run a social insurance scheme to provide funds for emergency situations. On average
each member of the group receives about 40% a year on their savings.
Village Savings and Loans Associations are very successful models that
has so far enabled over 1 million people in Africa to rise from
poverty. Combined with the teaching of business skills and the
provision to group members of other types of assistance in the areas of
health, wellbeing, nutrition, they have huge potential. They are entirely
community managed, and so all the benefits go to the group members as
there are no overheads or third parties to take profit.
Click here to learn more about Village Savings and Loans Associations
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About the Sponsor a Worker scheme
When you sponsor development workers you enable families to help themselves rise from poverty.
Extended families then have the resources to look after their own
children and other orphans and vulnerable children. They can pay for
their own school fees, health care, food, clothing and shelter.
Sponsored Workers are mainly either Trainers or Children’s Welfare
workers. They work for local community organisations who are at the
heart of the community. In Africa the most effective and involved of
these are mainly churches or sometimes other groups such as
agricultural societies.
Hope for a Child ensures that the money for each worker is paid
reliably, and that each worker actually receives the full amount sent
to them.
If you sponsor a worker you receive a quarterly report on their work so that you can see the effect of your sponsorship.
Children's Welfare workers
Welfare workers operate in the community, working with the most vulnerable children, orphans and their extended families, who are often affected by HIV/AIDs.
They...
Visit homes regularly to ensure that children are in a safe family environment.
Monitor the welfare needs of vulnerable children.
Run clubs in churches and schools so that vulnerable children can play safely while building trusting relationships with welfare workers, boosting their confidence and receiving a meal a day.
Organise other forms of assistance such as visiting the nurse, doctor or clinic.
Ensure that children have school uniforms and that they are attending school regularly.
Enable children who are vulnerable to break the cycle of poverty, have a brighter future and perhaps also become future leaders within their community.
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