Ethiopia
This section of the website answers three key questions:
| 1) Why is there a need for Income Creation? |
| 2) How does A Glimmer of Hope’s program work? |
| 3) Who is A Glimmer of Hope working with? |
1) Why is there a need for Income Creation?
Most of A Glimmer of Hope’s efforts have been humanitarian in nature but in recent years the foundation has begun to fund and implement various approaches to reducing poverty - namely income creation programs - alongside its other development initiatives. The result is synergistic development, poverty relief and sustainable impact.
Much has been written and spoken about poverty alleviation and how to make poverty history. There have been conferences, seminars, books and lectures on the subject. Millennium Development Task Forces have been established. And, all manner of experts have weighed in including activists and antagonists, celebrities and philanthropists, government and non-government.
The plain and simple fact is: if we help the poor make money, we can reduce and alleviate their poverty forever.
We know how to do it and there are plenty of successful working examples of it in operation today.
In developing countries such as Ethiopia, the opportunity exists to unearth the entrepreneur that lies within every Ethiopian who wants to feed themselves, their family and improve their way of life. And we believe they deserve that opportunity to break the cycle.
The facts on Global Poverty are horrifying: One in six people around the world (one billion) subsist on $1 a day; almost one in two (2.7 billion) survive on $2 a day.
It is not possible for us in the developed world to comprehend what life is like for these people as sit in our distant and comfortable cocoons.
It’s not right that the rural poor have to wait to see if it rains or not to know whether they are going to eat and live or go hungry and die.
Sending in food aid during a famine is not the solution – avoiding the famine is.
Withholding capital from the rural poor is not the answer – offering them small loans is.
All businesses need capital to start and to grow. And, everyone deserves the right to feed themselves and their family and improve their lives.
