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Self Supporting
Micro-enterprise Projects
In
an endeavour to assist pastors and evangelists to be self-supporting in
countries where there is little or no support for the ministry, or where
orphanages have been set up in very remote areas an approach to assist by
financing into the future has been adopted.
The following concept is adaptable to the many different cultures
encountered in this missionary ministry.
Method: The visiting
Apostolic team finances the project. This is personal input, people to
people, not just someone giving cash.
In the
sewing machine microenterprise the sewing machine is financed to the
project on a loan basis and the project is expected to repay this loan over
a period of time once the person operating the machine is making a saleable
product.
The team finances purchases, Pairs of Ducks, Goats, Calves, Hens or some
animal appropriate to the area visited.
The provision of this type of animal or bird is to give the following
options:
To be a producer of a saleable item, eggs, milk, cheese.
To be a producer of an edible item which will improve family health.
To be an investment which can if properly used multiply, thereby increasing
the opportunity for both the family and others.
- We have bought
four oxen in one nation and two cows and ten goats in North India as micro projects to transform
communities.
- to produce
milk for the children.
- To plough the rice
fields we have provided to feed the children and students in the
project.
- To use the
oxen as a micro project to generate cash flow for the project through
using them to plough other fields.
- We are seeking
to purchase more rice fields in order to provide the complete diet of
rice for 13 children and 40 students and the workers for a whole year.
The current rice fields 10 acres
provide two harvests with sufficient rice for the year.
- In this
project we are now wanting to establish a vocational training capacity
for the Training
Center we have
established. This will make the students self supporting. In order to
do this we need sewing machines to be provided. These machines cost
approx $120 US. Vocational training cost per student is Approx
$200
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