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...

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...

Rebuilding a life and a community after years of conflict, violence, and trauma is no easy task. The pain doesn’t go away immediately....

Today’s story of Small Business Fund success in Kenya is about more than monetary success. Sister Magrina, who received a Small Business...

When we met Wilson Nkosi at his shop in the Manyamula Saturday market last month, he started by telling us what his life had been like...

Paulos discusses his business with us during our visit to Malawi in 2011. One of the very cool things about my recent trip to Malawi is...

Should we call Korogocho a slum? It’s complicated. The residents in this sector of Nairobi are extremely poor. There is no running water...

(Please excuse any formatting errors! This is coming direct to you from my iPhone in Malawi.) “When God’s Spirit is in action, good...

When Samsa Ogwang applied for the Small Business Fund (SBF) program, she and her family were not doing well. Naomi Ayot, Spirit in Action...

After years in a difficult marriage, Loveness Nkhoma found herself divorced, back at home, and unsure how to support herself and her...

These men and women, chosen to receive SIA Small Business Fund grants, are living in the rough conditions in the informal settlements...

1. Five new small businesses sponsored in Malawi! Last week, five new entrepreneurs attended a day-long workshop with Small Business Fund...

Reposting this roundup of the ways peoples’ lives change after receiving a SIA Small Business Fund grant. In [June 2015] I highlighted...

It’s not easy being divorced in Malawi. Three years ago, Sylvia S.’s husband left her and ran off to South Africa, leaving her (now age...

Over the past three years Spirit in Action has supported 33 small businesses in the informal settlement of Korogocho in Nairobi, Kenya....

“Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is...

Small Business Fund leaders in Amukugungu Village in northern Uganda welcome SIA to their village. “I would not have you descend into...

This Saturday we will celebrate 20 years of Spirit in Action. Twenty years ago, in February of 1996, Del and Lucile Anderson, twelve...

Paying-it-forward, positive change in a high-poverty neighborhood, knowledge sharing, local leadership, and savings group formation –...

In January 2013, Lackson Lungu bought two piglets with a Spirit in Action Small Business Fund grant. We gave the $150 as a grant,...