Inat Assefa carefully observes wheat and teff prices at the market. At harvest time, when supplies are high and prices fall, she buys extra grain and stores it a few months until prices increase. She developed this simple idea to time the annual market and enhance her income while writing a business plan in preparation …
Participants in Hope Arising’s women’s support group meet weekly to learn how to better run their businesses. As part of their training, participants learn to separate and track their personal and business expenses. They share ideas, achievements, and failures in an effort to help one another improve. Before receiving training, they explain, they had no …
Occasionally Hope Arising provides multiple loans to recipients like Etenesh Gonjoba, who used her first loan to establish a poultry business and a second loan to start a sheep fattening operation. These profits from her agribusinesses allowed her to improve her daughter’s education and to continuously improve her life. Business training provided by Hope Arising …
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Following the death of her husband more than 8 years ago, Werkaferaw Teferaw struggled to feed and educate her children. Unable to pay the registration fees, Werkaferaw credits Hope Arising with paying her children’s school fees, providing them with uniforms, and purchasing the required study materials. “Because of Hope Arising, my children continued their education.” …
As Covid-19 reached Ethiopia, Hope Arising partnered with the Dodota Woreda Administration (local government). Our donation of medical masks, gloves, gowns, and sterilizing supplies is helping safeguard medical professionals and responders as they care for symptomatic individuals. We also continue to support individuals who participated in our programs. Those who completed our business training, which …
Before Ilifinesh Hurisa qualified for a Hope Arising loan, her family subsisted on ETB17 ($0.61) per day. Her husband, a day laborer, is away for extended periods working in the fields for minimal income while Ilifinesh is left to provide for their two children. Applying the basic business principles learned from Hope Arising and using …
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