By Sister Marilyn Lacey | Executive Director
Alia Rose is a refugee from South Sudan, now living in a camp. But she is so much more than that! She is a mom, caring for a family of 6. Her family receives a mere 250 grams of food per person per day from the UN. She must queue for water, forage for firewood, cook, care for her children, patch the walls and roof of her mud hut when it rains, cultivate her tiny garden,
Now, thanks to you, Alia is also an ENTREPRENEUR. She participated in a micro-enterprise training workshop with Mercy Beyond Borders (MBB) and then qualified for an MBB loan of $200. With that she purchased seeds and tools and after much hard work was able to harvest groundnuts -- peanuts -- to sell for cash. She parlayed that cash into shoes for her children* so that they could attend school in the camp.
Alia qualified for a second loan, with which she bought new inventory to expand her small business. She has already repaid both loans. Your support means that, despite Covid-19 restrictions, her children are surviving the cutbacks in UN rations. They are in school. They have hope. And Alia feels the pride of ownership for the first time in her life.
This project has enabled Mercy Beyond Borders to enroll, train and fund 90 refugee women to date. All have started their businesses. THANK YOU!
*NOTE: Primary school in the refugee camps in free, but children without shoes cannot attend.
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