Grant update: Chickens = meat, eggs, manure
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SIA Team
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
Local low-interest loans in Matungu Community, Kenya
When Chris Owino was ready to expand his grocery stall in the market, he joined the Matungu Community Development Charity’s small loan...
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SIA Team
- Jun 18, 2019
- 2 min
Seeing Change with the Visionary Women’s Centre
Even though it was the day of the funeral of the husband of a group member, over 60 women (and one man) met at the church in Lumakanda...
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SIA Team
- Jun 4, 2019
- 2 min
“A place of discovering our potential”
“A place of discovering our potential.” This is how one of the vocational students at Set Her Free Uganda described the supportive...
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SIA Team
- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min
Sharing the Gift – Spring Chickens Edition
After having their chance to receive hens and nurture them for meat, eggs, and profit last year, the 28 original members of the Visionary...
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SIA Team
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
The Fall Newsletter is here! Grant updates, stories, photos, and inspiration!
The 2018 Fall & Winter newsletter is here! You can view a PDF version here and hard copies are in the mail this week! Elvis Nikiza helps...
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SIA Team
- Sep 25, 2018
- 2 min
Down on the farm…
Animals act as investments for SIA grant partners. Families use their savings to buy goats, pigs, chickens, and even cows. Then they can...
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SIA Team
- Jun 12, 2018
- 2 min
Improving nutrition for all
Chicken is the most common source of protein in Kenya, and still it is not available to everyone. Many people eat mostly maize and other...
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SIA Team
- Mar 20, 2018
- 2 min
The One Chicken Give Away
This grant update is from one of Spirit in Action’s newest partners, Visionary Women’s Centre in Turbo, Kenya. They were awarded a SIA...
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SIA Team
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
Meet Sylvester Nkhoma, Entrepreneur
Sylvester Nhkoma’s house in 2011, when I first visited his farm in Manyamula, Malawi. It has a tin roof but no plaster between the...
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SIA Team
- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
Taking a selfie with a cow
“The camera is right here!” I try – successfully! – to get a selfie with a cow at a Megabridge Foundation farm in Kenya. After our visit,...
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SIA Team
- May 16, 2017
- 2 min
Grants underway and I’m on my way!
We sent out the latest round of grant funds last month and the community projects are already well underway! Women’s Group Curio Shop The...
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SIA Team
- Jan 14, 2014
- 2 min
Making me happy: Savings Groups, Moringa, & the Unexpected
I started my morning today with one of the things making me happy this week: Moringa Green Tea! And from there I read a great article...
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SIA Team
- Apr 23, 2013
- 2 min
3 Ways SIA Partners are Celebrating Earth Day Everyday
Earth Day celebrations may last over a weekend but what about the long-term? Here are three examples of Spirit in Action partners...
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SIA Team
- Sep 25, 2012
- 2 min
Bonus! 5 Newsletter Additions.
Healthy corn plants in Malawi. Welcome new visitors and long-time readers. The SIA Fall/Winter Newsletters are on their way to you this...
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SIA Team
- Jul 24, 2012
- 2 min
5 Cool SIA-related Things
1. Sharing the Gift: Five groups of women in Malawi received SIA grants in 2009 to start their own bakeries and grocery shops. Then in...
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SIA Team
- Nov 29, 2011
- 2 min
Chickens for Education
Rows of crops on the Common Ground "Feed the Village" farm The view out the window of the minibus from Eldoret to Kitale, Kenya was...
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SIA Team
- May 24, 2011
- 2 min
More than Wealth: Justice
“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. It is justice.” – Leonardo Boff Since the group started this loan fund, using individual...
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SIA Team
- Apr 13, 2011
- 1 min
Preview! SIA Spring Newsletter
A Report by Joshua Machinga, Common Ground Program – Poultry Project Yet, in the midst of such astonishing beauty, life in Kenya is often...
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SIA Team
- Mar 8, 2011
- 2 min
Let's Take a Peek in the Poultry House
As spring begins to spring in [some parts of] the U.S., I share a fitting story of baby chicks and the hope they can bring to a...
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