Economic Development Ministries
You can be part of improving lives through economic development, environmental sustainability, and micro enterprise. The following projects aid with economic development ministries.
Romany Economic Development
Enable business startups in Moldova
Christian Romany in Moldova are desperate to find ways to support themselves and their families without leaving home for months at a time in search of work in other countries. This project provides training and small loans for business development.
$160.00 provides a new or existing business with a start-up “credit.”
Sewing and Needlework
Provide supplies for homebound women in Jordan
Your gift provides the supplies and equipment for homebound women to create crafts that provide them with an income. This project also provides a vehicle for visiting these women in their homes and establishing relationships with them in order to share the Good News.
$2.00 will purchase a yard of fabric (usually purchased by the bolt).
$11.00 will purchase a bag of 1,000 beads used in making gift bags.
$30.00 will purchase an iron.
$8.00 will purchase a box of embroidery thread.
Delta Jewels
Support a teen co-op
Delta Jewels is a jewelry cooperative in Helena-West Helena, Ark., where CBF field personnel are addressing rural poverty. Jewelry is designed and made by local teenagers, who are learning invaluable business skills while also generating income.
$40.00 will purchase materials to make 20 sets of earrings, 10 bracelets, or five necklaces.
Micro-enterprise in North Africa
Provide seed money for a migrant to start a business
Your gift helps fund micro-enterprise projects, which allow North African migrants and immigrants to use their abilities and talents to make a small income and provide for their basic needs.
$50.00 provides start-up funds for a microenterprise project.
Local entrepreneurship
Help the 20 poorest counties in the U.S. rise out of poverty
Together for Hope, the Fellowship’s rural poverty initiative, helps address poverty through encouraging local entrepreneurship. One example is Delta Jewels, a jewelry cooperative in Helena-West Helena, Ark. Jewelry is designed and made by local teenagers, who are learning invaluable business skills while also generating income.
$600.00 will help establish another jewelry co-op in one of the 20 poorest counties in the U.S. This amount includes the startup material for 250 sets of earrings and the training of the co-op employees.
$25.00 purchases one share of a no- or low-interest micro business loan to an entrepreneur in one of the poorest counties in U.S.
Sewing Training Center
Help teen girls in India acquire income-producing skills
At a very young age, many teenage girls are brought into urban cities as prostitutes. The Sewing Training Center is designed to mold and lead young women and widowed women to Christ through locally acceptable ways and newly acquired skills. It also provides a place for widowed women to acquire new skills to take care of their families.
$75.00 will provide a sewing machine for a teenage girl or widowed woman.
$500.00 will help buy a cow or water buffalo for a struggling widow to take care of her family by selling milk.