Healing a Nation through Eradicating Poverty

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Healing a Nation through Eradicating Poverty

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Africa Africa Africa Africa

• Whatever you thought think again!
• 850 - 900 Million People
• 71 of population under age 25
• Life expectancy 46 and declining
• 53 Independent Countries
• 19 Democratic Governments
• 3,000 Languages and Dialects,
• Fastest Growing Church on Earth
• Economys face world trade barriers
• Africas Debt needs a Biblical Jubilee
• 9 nations have GDP growth of 2.6 USAs GDP
• Some corrupt leaders
• HIV/AIDS

A SILENT TSUNAMI EVERY MONTH!
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Multiple causes of Poverty

• Poor personal choices
• Unsustainable worldviews
• Natural disasters
• Lack of technology
• Great inequalities of power
• The legacy of Western colonialism
• Structural injustices
• - Unfair trade barriers
• International debt crisis
• - Destruction of African environment
• Eating food from hungry nations
• Multinational corporations in Africa

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The Poor in Africa

• How can we help more
• than 400 million people
• in Africa who barely
• survive on less than 1 a
• day?
• To start to eradicate
• abject poverty is to start
• to bring healing to a
• nation.

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Poverty Hunger

• Africa is the poorest continent on earth.
• Only 1 in 3 children completes elementary school.
• 1 in 3 residents of sub-Saharan Africa is
  chronically undernourished.
• Average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa has
  dropped from roughly 62 years to 47 years, mainly
  due to AIDS.

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Refugees From famine and war
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Poverty in Africa
34 of the worlds 42 poorest countries are in
Africa
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Poverty African Debt

• 75 of the world's heavily-indebted poor
  countries are in sub-Saharan Africa
• Africa owes almost 300 billion in debt
• Sub-Saharan Africa spends 40 million each day
  repaying old debts to wealthy nations
• Many countries in Africa are spending more on
  debt than on healthcare or education
• Africa pays more in debt
• than it receives in foreign aid

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Poverty in Africa
Half of Africas 850 million people live on less
than 1 a day
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Relative Purchasing Power
Low income 1,990 or less. Unemployment 60
70
Purchasing Power Parity in 2000 Source World
Bank Indicators, 2001
Upper middle income 20,001 or
more. Unemployment 6 - 10
Surely we can help to close this gap?
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Economic Empowerment

• The link between poverty and AIDS
• Poverty hastens the onset of AIDS
• nutrition,sanitation,education,medication

• Prevention Early Detection has cultural
  barriers
• Treating AIDS is expensive but costs dropping
  rapidly
• Denial and stigmatization keep AIDS issues
  SILENT.

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HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS

• HIV/AIDS is leading cause of death in
  Sub-Saharan Africa. There is no cure for AIDS.
• Sub-Saharan Africa has 11 of the worlds
  population and 70 of Africas HIV/AIDS cases
• 10,000 Africans die every day of AIDS-related
  causes. This total is growing
• This is the silent Tsunami 300,000 die per mth
• Thousands more contract HIV virus every day
• In 13 African countries, more than one in every
  ten adults is HIV-positive

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A Few More Facts About AIDS

• 15 MILLION African Children have lost one or both
  parents to HIV/AIDS
• 9 MILLION African girls young women aged 15 to
  24 have HIV
• 5 to 6 times more African women than African men
  are infected.
• Africa is the current center of the AIDS Pandemic
  but it is only the first wave. China, India
  Russia are next.

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African Enterprise in Africa

• Our scope all cities/towns of Africa
• Our 10 indigenous African offices

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10 African National Teams 10 International
Support Countries
Africa
Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda,
South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
International
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New
Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA
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The AE Partnership

• Our strategy A global partnership
• Where West meets Africa

• Australia Congo (DRC)
• Belgium Ethiopia
• Canada Ghana
• Germany Kenya
• Ireland Malawi
• New Zealand Rwanda
• Norway S. Africa
• Switzerland Tanzania
• United Kingdom Uganda
• United States Zimbabwe

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The Mission of African Enterprise

• To reach the cities of Africa through word and
  deed in partnership with the Church since 1961
• To build partnerships in urban mission in Africa
  Canada
• An holistic approach (Word and Deed)
• Our 4 core competencies

City Reaching
Aid Development
The context of this presentation a critical
aspect of AEs work giving people hope by
helping them to earn a living
Leadership Development
Reconciliation Justice
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AEs Poverty Alleviation Efforts Related to
Micro-Finance

• Restoring dignity hope through sustainable
• employment and development
• Our approach

• Goal
• Restore hope dignity through self -sustaining
  employment development

• Enable new businesses
• Cross -Trade learning
• Mentoring
• Micro-finance

• Form Skill Trade Co-ops
• Business skill
• Micro-finance
• Capacity building

• Form self- help groups
• Building up self worth.
• Basic Trade skills social training

• Raise finance
• Government funding
• Revolving micro-credit

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Economic Empowerment

• Case example Rwanda

• 12 Years after the 1994 genocide that claimed one
  million lives Rwanda is rebuilding on the basis
  of reconciliation, justice and developing
  survivors.

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GENOCIDE
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Rwanda Genocide

• Results of the 1994 genocide
• Over 800,000 killed during 100-day period
• Another 200,000 died in the bush
• 50 of women widowed
• 70 of women raped
• 80 of women are HIV-positive
• 25 women have full-blown AIDS
• 500,000 children orphaned
• 300,000 children need trauma therapy
• 150,000 in prison awaiting trial
• New government of Tutsi Hutu
• New community Justice system
• Repentance, forgiveness reconciliation
• Exiles return in large numbers
• New National Anthem and Flag
• Natnl. Council for Unity Reconciliation
• Celebrated A Decade of Peace in 2004.

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Margaret Mead

• This great social anthropologist and writer said
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world indeed
  its the only thing that ever has.

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Empowering individuals
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and their communities
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to take the initiative
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and transform their own circumstances.
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Economic Empowerment

• Micro-business key to poverty alleviation
  through economic empowerment
• - Skills training for 7 months
• - Business training for 4 months
• Micro-loans part grant, low interest
• 100 repayment of loan portion!

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Job-Skills Training

• Program design based on local research of needed
  skills
• 7 months of apprentice-type skills training
  mentoring.
• Graduates formed into same-skill co-operatives
• Shared workshop space and equipment
• Co-op meets weekly with AE supervisor to plan
  manage
• Plan to attend the 4 month AE business
  development training

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carpentry
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Making furniture
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welding
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pots from aluminium car parts
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shoe making
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textiles
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bread making
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Teaching leadership and management skills
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Business Development Training

• 4 months of training by local entrepreneurs to
  cover
• Product and production planning
• Marketing Sales
• Banking and Accounting
• AIDS Awareness
• Business Personal Ethics
• The Co-op, Community the environment
• Youth return to co-ops. Adults branch out
• Micro-Financing to provide seed-funds capital
• Part-grant and part-loan at low or no interest
• AE continues to provide assistance as needed

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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP ?

• Join us to help eradicate poverty in Africa.
• Making poverty history really is possible.
• Just .07 of G8 countries income will do it!
• Join us in the fight against AIDS. It can be won!
• Preventing pregnant Moms passing on HIV is
  possible.
• Help with job-skills - 220 provides a 7 month
  course.
• Business Training- 250 provides 4 months
  mentoring
• Help to start small businesses through
  micro-finance.
• Help to start 1 business for as little as 50
• Imagine what we can do with your
  500/5000/5mil.
• Join us in making our world more just, more
  caring and
• much more like our Creator God intended!
• African Enterprise Canada Booth I (i)
  11(eleven)
• www.AfricanEnterprise.com

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840 Million people in 53 independent countries
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• A Global Partnership Reaching Africa for Christ

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Evangelising the cities of Africa in word and
deed, in partnership with the church.
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The AE Partnership

• African Enterprise (AE) Reaching the Cities of
  Africa through Word Deed in
  Partnership with the Church since 1961.
• AE Canada Building Partnerships for Urban
  Outreach in Africa and Canada since 1989.
• An Holistic Approach Our 4 Core Competencies

Aid Development
City Reaching
Leadership Development
Reconciliation Justice
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POVERTY the context of MISSION

• Contents
• gtAbout African
• Enterprise
• gtAEs HIV/ AIDS
• alleviation efforts
• Case Examples
• Rwanda, Uganda
• Malawi Ethiopia

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South Africa

• 40 Million people
• 11 Ethnic Groups
• 78 Christian
• Second to USA in age of Evangelicals
• 45 years of worst racism on earth
• 11 years of democracy and stability
• Most people with AIDS in Africa 5.3 million

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Poverty in Africa
One out of three residents of sub-Saharan Africa
do not get enough to eat every day
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Margaret Mead

• This great social anthropologist and writer said
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world indeed
  its the only thing that ever has.

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Teaching leadership and management skills