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In Africa, employment equals the ability to feed your children or not. A woman not being a sex worker is not necessarily about her personal dignity; it is about whether or not she can feed her children. But creating jobs is more than just creating employment. It requires counseling the former sex worker through her heart issue, and teaching fiscal responsibility to the young father with four children whose wife died of AIDS.

This is the holistic approach we take with this restoring work. We do this work primarily through small business loans and job skills training. First, when giving a small business loan to someone, you must help them to create a business plan.

This includes anything from selling charcoal for cooking to selling grain at the market. We teach business management skills, and then help them to launch the business. We mentor through running their business and through teaching life skills necessary to do so. Then, with job skills training, we teach various skills: sewing and garment making, carpentry, knitting and weaving, bead making, and even computer skills and literacy training.

We do all of this so that those we serve will become self supportive and independent...and then we'll move on to the next family.