Women

Ever Grateful: Abay Assefa

Abay Assefa earned $0.62 a day before entering Hope Arising’s business training course and receiving a $182 microloan.  At the time, she could not feed her kindergartener and couldn’t afford school fees.  Today, she owns a grill and cooks and sells injera to local customers.  As her business and income have grown, she can afford …

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Supporting, Learning, and Mentoring

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 …

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A Setback and Recovery: Business Training Enables Success

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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I Feel Like I’ve Been Reborn

“I feel like I’ve been reborn to a new life.  The business training provided me with new skills.  My lifestyle is completely changed and I’ve learned to save for the future.” After receiving a ETB5,000 ($200) loan, Naima Hajii has opened a successful busines selling fresh fruit and other small items at the market and …

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I no Longer Worry

Mrs. Ilifinesh Lemma and her two children did not have a table where they could eat, nor did they have beds where they could sleep.  She earned only $0.74 day.  “I love Hope Arising because it taught me how to begin a business, gave me an interest free loan, and taught me to save part …

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My Life is Changing

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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