Beyond Grants: Rebuilding After Conflict
Rebuilding a life and a community after years of conflict, violence, and trauma is no easy task. The pain doesn’t go away immediately....
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SIA Team
- Aug 15, 2017
- 3 min
Love is Warm Coca-Cola
Today’s story of Small Business Fund success in Kenya is about more than monetary success. Sister Magrina, who received a Small Business...
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SIA Team
- Jul 11, 2017
- 3 min
“I didn’t even have basic soap”
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...
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SIA Team
- Jun 27, 2017
- 3 min
“This is not a house of a poor person.”
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...
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SIA Team
- Jun 6, 2017
- 2 min
Update from Nairobi, Kenya!
Should we call Korogocho a slum? It’s complicated. The residents in this sector of Nairobi are extremely poor. There is no running water...
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SIA Team
- May 30, 2017
- 2 min
Seeing change in Malawi
(Please excuse any formatting errors! This is coming direct to you from my iPhone in Malawi.) “When God’s Spirit is in action, good...
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SIA Team
- Apr 25, 2017
- 2 min
A good harvest in Uganda
When Samsa Ogwang applied for the Small Business Fund (SBF) program, she and her family were not doing well. Naomi Ayot, Spirit in Action...
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SIA Team
- Mar 21, 2017
- 2 min
That second chance that makes all the difference
After years in a difficult marriage, Loveness Nkhoma found herself divorced, back at home, and unsure how to support herself and her...
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SIA Team
- Mar 14, 2017
- 2 min
Entrepreneurs in Nairobi: “We feel resurrected”
These men and women, chosen to receive SIA Small Business Fund grants, are living in the rough conditions in the informal settlements...
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SIA Team
- Feb 21, 2017
- 2 min
SIA Updates: New grants, crops in Malawi, and a run-raiser!
1. Five new small businesses sponsored in Malawi! Last week, five new entrepreneurs attended a day-long workshop with Small Business Fund...
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SIA Team
- Feb 14, 2017
- 2 min
How do their lives change?
Reposting this roundup of the ways peoples’ lives change after receiving a SIA Small Business Fund grant. In [June 2015] I highlighted...
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SIA Team
- Jan 10, 2017
- 2 min
A second chance for Sylvia
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...
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SIA Team
- Dec 6, 2016
- 2 min
Business updates from Nairobi, Kenya
Over the past three years Spirit in Action has supported 33 small businesses in the informal settlement of Korogocho in Nairobi, Kenya....
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SIA Team
- Nov 29, 2016
- 1 min
#GivingTuesday: “Whatever is honorable”
“Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is...
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SIA Team
- Aug 9, 2016
- 1 min
Gardens and pigs in Uganda
Small Business Fund leaders in Amukugungu Village in northern Uganda welcome SIA to their village. “I would not have you descend into...
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SIA Team
- Jun 21, 2016
- 2 min
For Sustainable Futures. A business 12 years later.
This Saturday we will celebrate 20 years of Spirit in Action. Twenty years ago, in February of 1996, Del and Lucile Anderson, twelve...
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SIA Team
- May 31, 2016
- 3 min
All the best of Spirit in Action in one report!
Paying-it-forward, positive change in a high-poverty neighborhood, knowledge sharing, local leadership, and savings group formation –...
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SIA Team
- Apr 12, 2016
- 1 min
SIA’s pay-it-forward model in the news
In January 2013, Lackson Lungu bought two piglets with a Spirit in Action Small Business Fund grant. We gave the $150 as a grant,...
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SIA Team
- Apr 5, 2016
- 1 min
4 photos, 4 stories
These are the faces of Spirit in Action. Each photo captures just one moment and represents a much larger story of struggle, success, and...
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SIA Team
- Mar 8, 2016
- 2 min
Choosing new business groups in Uganda
The training started with the chairperson describing how the word TEAM is an abbreviation. It really stands for Together Everybody...
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