2 photo updates & a short video
1. Joshua & Fastina's Fish Farm in Malawi Manyamula Village is hours away from Lake Malawi, so the only fish that arrives there is dried....
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SIA Team
- Mar 10, 2020
- 3 min
Success Story: Down on McDonald’s Farm
“If you live in a house like this, something good has happened,” McDonald Kajani told us, orienting us to the context of Manyamula...
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SIA Team
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Insights from our Coordinators: Small Business Fund
You’ve probably read many of my blog posts about our Small Business Fund (SBF) program for entrepreneurs. Small groups receive a $150...
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SIA Team
- Dec 17, 2019
- 2 min
New Grants – December 2019!
Spirit in Action partners are working at the ground level – demanding rights for girls and young women, adding value to farmers’ crops,...
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SIA Team
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min
Women of Change in Kenya
Guest post by Gloria Teimuge, Eldoret Kenya Traditional brewing of alcohol is still common in Kenyan communities and has remained an...
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SIA Team
- Nov 5, 2019
- 2 min
Small Business Success in Malawi!
Business is booming in Manyamula Village. This village was small and struggling when I first visited eight years ago and it’s growing...
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SIA Team
- Sep 10, 2019
- 3 min
Back to school (fees) in Kenya
Small Business Fund entrepreneurs and leaders in Korogocho, Nairobi hosting Tanya in June. Wambui, pictured on left edge of the group is...
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SIA Team
- Jun 11, 2019
- 3 min
Update from Kenya!
This post is an update from Barbara Deal, SIA Board Member, on her experience at the SIA Small Business Fund Coordinator Conference last...
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SIA Team
- Feb 12, 2019
- 1 min
Hand to Mouth No More…
Success stories from three Small Business Fund grant recipients in Nairobi, Kenya. After expanding their entrepreneurial activities, most...
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SIA Team
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
The Gift of Transformation
“I used to be very low. Business was up and down. Now, with a Spirit in Action Small Business Fund grant I am overjoyed. I bought a table...
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SIA Team
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
Meet these new Small Business Fund entrepreneurs!
Five more Small Business Fund grants were distributed in Manyamula Village in northern Malawi last month. Local coordinator Canaan Gondwe...
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SIA Team
- Jul 31, 2018
- 2 min
“Don’t be bureaucratic”
“Have you distributed the funds that we sent in January for the new small businesses?” I reached out on WhatsApp to Small Business Fund...
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SIA Team
- Jul 10, 2018
- 1 min
Peres’s sewing business helps her family
Some charity organizations help pay for school fees and give away medicine. The Spirit in Action Small Business Fund helps people start...
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SIA Team
- May 15, 2018
- 2 min
Milly Imat and other successful entrepreneurs in Uganda
Two years ago Milly Imat, a widow in Akwiridiri village in Kole District in Northern Uganda, received a Small Business Fund grant and...
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SIA Team
- Apr 10, 2018
- 2 min
Making Dreams Come True: Economic Migrants Return Home
Elias Mkhayi and Lyness Gausi both went to secondary school in rural Malawi. They married young and had dreams of continuing their...
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SIA Team
- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
Meet Austin, Manyamula’s Carpenter
Austin used the SBF grant to buy wood. He already had a chisel, plane, and saw. On our first day of site visits in Manyamula, Malawi, we...
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SIA Team
- Dec 5, 2017
- 2 min
Helping their children to have a better life
All around the world, parents have the common hope that their children will have better lives than their own. This was the hope of...
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SIA Team
- Nov 28, 2017
- 2 min
#GivingTuesday – Support entrepreneurs in Malawi and Kenya!
Supporting Families Wilson Nikosi (Manyamula, Malawi) “I did not even have a piece of soap or a blanket. I was using a sack to sleep on....
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SIA Team
- Oct 24, 2017
- 3 min
“Mindset preparation” on the path to success
Guest post by Michael Hegeman, SIA Advisory Board Member. He traveled with me to Kenya and Malawi this year. “I’ll always be poor.” “I’ll...
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SIA Team
- Oct 3, 2017
- 2 min
Ripples of success even when a project “fails”
Mbwenu is not satisfied with the status quo. He is always looking at new ways of doing things. After visiting Mbwenu in 2014, I wrote...
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