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Rwanda Team Looking to Be a Help

From July 8-27th, the Go the Second Mile Rwanda Team will be in Kigali, Rwanda, working with our friend Steven Turikunkiko.  Steven, and his wife Providence, whom have established a “new community” of over 200 widows and orphans, all of whom are victims of genocide, with many being HIV positive due to massive rapes occurring

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Charity is not the answer . . .

A quote out of the book by Jacqueline Novogratz called the Blue Sweater:

” . . . I learned that microenterprise is an important part of the solution,but is not the only part. I also learned that traditional charity alone cannot solve the problems of poverty . . . big flows of aid can create as many incentives for corruption and mismanagement as for change. Markets alone won’t solve the problems of poverty. Low income people are invisible to most entrepreneurs . . . More