I want a Kenyan cell phone!
When you think Africa you might not think cell phones. You should though! In Kenya especially they are doing some really cool, innovative...
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SIA Team
- Mar 24, 2015
- 3 min
Helping Businesses Succeed
This group of women meet twice a week to weave mats together under the trees. “People laugh when you are going [to market with your...
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SIA Team
- Mar 10, 2015
- 1 min
Video: Gratitude for what we do
First, I’m grateful for our amazing volunteers. People like Carmen Hernandez who share their skills with SIA. Carmen put together this...
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SIA Team
- Feb 24, 2015
- 2 min
Dreaming of Spring
“What are those crazy things hanging in the tree?” I asked the SIA Small Business Fund Coordinators when we saw them on the site of our...
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SIA Team
- Feb 10, 2015
- 1 min
We have a new logo!
I am so excited to share Spirit in Action’s new logo! Wait, new logo? Did SIA have an old logo? Short answer, not really. Long answer, we...
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SIA Team
- Feb 3, 2015
- 2 min
Fostering dignity in myself and others
Brown Ngoma is expanding his family’s store, building a home, and now “when his family is sick he can pay for a private hospital.”...
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SIA Team
- Jan 20, 2015
- 2 min
Called to action – now
Yesterday, Boyd and I took our lunch break to read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail aloud to each other. Reading it...
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SIA Team
- Dec 2, 2014
- 3 min
Huh? Can you say that again?
How many languages do you speak? In the U.S., the answer is generally “one” or, maybe “two.” In the countries I visited this summer...
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SIA Team
- Nov 25, 2014
- 1 min
Being Grateful for What We Do
Tanya shows off a basket and hat woven by one of the Small Business Fund groups. I’m grateful for the generosity of our grant partners!...
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SIA Team
- Nov 18, 2014
- 2 min
4 Things To Help Me Not Feel Overwhelmed
1. Catching Dennis Kiprop’s Contagious Optimism Dennis Kiprop (Kenya) and Canaan Gondwe (Malawi) chat during a break in the SIA Small...
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SIA Team
- Oct 8, 2014
- 3 min
Knowing how much I don’t know
As you may have heard or seen, the SIA website was hacked yesterday. I got a dreaded email from Google warning me that the site would...
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SIA Team
- Sep 16, 2014
- 2 min
What I’m grateful for this week
Is anyone else having a week where there seems to be too much bad news in the world? Time to record some things I’m grateful for, to keep...
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SIA Team
- Sep 9, 2014
- 3 min
What’s in a smile?
The bright, sun-flooded room was filled with community members. They were excited to welcome us as visitors from the US to their rural...
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SIA Team
- Aug 5, 2014
- 2 min
Travel Angels
*Update* The video is now working! Scroll down to see the Manyamula Band singing us a welcome song. (8/5/14) Just before leaving for...
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SIA Team
- Jun 25, 2014
- 1 min
There is no “us”, there is no “them”
There is no you, there is no me. There’s only God that I can see. There is no us, there is no them. There’s only God. Amen. — “There’s...
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SIA Team
- Jun 3, 2014
- 2 min
A Work in Progress
Breathe. Relax. Follow the path in front of you. I woke up in a panic this morning. I had dreamed that I had planned a second trip to...
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SIA Team
- May 13, 2014
- 2 min
For those who are seeking
Tanya in northern Scotland. I spent last week at the Findhorn Foundation, a spiritual community in northern Scotland. I went not knowing...
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SIA Team
- Apr 22, 2014
- 2 min
5 things to brighten your day
Here’s five things making me happy this week. I hope you all had an inspiring Easter! 1. Ready for Easter: Eggs in Malawi Lilian and her...
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SIA Team
- Mar 18, 2014
- 3 min
Traveling in Kenya
Kids at Samro School and Empowering Lives International play baseball in the mud. For World Storytelling Day on Thrusday, and as a way of...
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SIA Team
- Mar 11, 2014
- 3 min
Are we master builders or workers in this world?
Hastings and Ruth with sturdy bricks for their house. (Malawi) Parable of the 3 Stonecutters An old story tells of three stonecutters who...
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