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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
- Mar 3, 2020
- 3 min
Small-Scale Manufacturing in Kenya
Today’s post is a re-post from David Zarembka’s Report from Kenya blog. David is an American who has lived in Kenya for many years. I...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- May 27, 2014
- 2 min
Sharing the Gift in Malawi (x2)
Sometimes giving the perfect gift is more fun than receiving and unwrapping a gift, right? Do you know that feeling of knowing just the...
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SIA Team
- Nov 27, 2012
- 4 min
What is the Small Business Fund?
We approved grants for another 20 new small businesses at our Board of Directors Meeting over the weekend! So this is a perfect time to...
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SIA Team
- Sep 13, 2011
- 4 min
Realizing potential with just $150! Small Business Fund FAQs
How much a difference can $150 really make? While visiting Kenya and Malawi, Boyd and I saw many thriving businesses established through...
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