Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Means
Enabling Families to Support Themselves

Thanks to our micro-enterprise loan program, more than 1,500 Nicaraguan families and hundreds more in Africa are managing successful businesses and providing thousands of jobs for other families within their communities.

Children’s Hunger Relief Fund supports three micro-enterprise programs:

• Farming Systems Kenya
• The CREDIT Program - Uganda
• The Zana/Entebbe Program - Uganda.

Desperate families are overwhelmed with gratitude when they receive such an opportunity. People who had nothing prior to our assistance began to thrive, enabling them to feed, clothe, house and educate
their families.

These programs are much more than lending money. Recipients must meet pre-requisites and are then specifically trained in small business operation, banking and other basic skills that will serve to make the business successful. Each family is held accountable to ensure that their loan is repaid.

Just a $250 can start one family in a self-sustaining business. As soon as a family pays off their loan in the allotted 12-month period (and some 97% do), your donation then becomes available for another family. This multiplication continues year-after-year to provide deserving families an opportunity to rise above the despair of relentless poverty into the dignity of self-sufficiency.

Helping a poor family start a business doesn’t take much, but it is one of the most powerful things we can do to break the cycle of poverty.

Our goal is to help establish 100,000 new small family businesses in Africa. The first step is to start a small business. Remember only $250 can make this possible. When that loan is repaid, the funds are then reinvested in a new small business. By starting 10,000 new businesses in the first year, and by reinvesting the repaid loans in the years to follow, our goal can be accomplished in just 10 years. 100,000 newly self-sufficient families will provide an example to every African family of how to break the cycle of poverty. 100,000 small family businesses will revolutionize Africa!