Kickstart A Business in Africa for just C$300

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Kick-start A Business in Africa for just C300

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How to Kickstart a Business in Africa for Just
C300

• PANEL
• Dave Waines Based in Liberia West Africa with
  his Canadian
• family and serving with the international
  division of EQUIP
• CANADA Dave will give us a first-hand account of
  his work
• related to our topic today.
• Doris Olafson Vice President, Advancement for
  OPPORTUNITY
• INTERNATIONAL CANADA Doris serves with one of
  the worlds
• largest microfinance organizations. She has just
  returned from
• Peru but will be speaking about their expanding
  work with over
• 100,000 clients in Africa
• Dave Richardson CEO of AFRICAN ENTERPRISE
  CANADADave
• lived in Africa for 40 years and has served with
  AE for 25 years.
• 12 years with AEs 10 national teams in Africa
  and 13 yrs
• in Canada and as an international AE consultant

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AFRICA AFRICA AFRICA
Whatever you thought, think again!

• 840 Million People
• 53 Independent Countries
• 3,000 Languages and Dialects,
• Fastest Growing Church on Earth
• Economys face world trade barriers
• Debt needs a Biblical Jubilee
• 9 nations have GDP growth of 2.6
• Some corrupt leaders
• HIV/AIDS

• a silent tsunami a month!

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Transforming Africa
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The Christian Lead From The South

• Over the past five centuries or so, Christianity
  has been chiefly centred in Europe and
  European-derived civilisations overseas.
• Since the second world-war and more swiftly from
  the 1960s the centre of gravity in the
  Christian world has shifted inexorably southward
  from North America and Europe to Africa, Asia and
  Latin America.

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• New Testament Prof. Andrew Walls of the UK
  comments
• Anyone who wishes to undertake serious study of
  Christianity these days needs to know something
  about Africa.
• Says Kenyan scholar John Mbiti
• The centres of the Churchs universality are no
  longer in Geneva, Rome, Athens, Paris, London and
  New York, but in Kinshasa, Congo Buenos Aires,
  Argentina Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Lagos Nigeria
  and Manila in the Philippines.

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Understanding Key Issues

• Poverty Hunger
• Education
• Debt
• Trade
• Foreign Aid
• Health Care
• Genocide Conflict
• HIV/AIDS

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Poverty Hunger

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

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The Poor in Africa

• Over 400 million people in Africa barely survive
  on less than 1 a day

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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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Poverty in Africa34 of the worlds 42 poorest
countries are in Africa
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Poverty in Africa (cont.) Half of Africas 850
million people live on less than 1 a day
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Poverty in Africa (cont.)1 in 3 people in
sub-Saharan Africa do not get enough to eat every
day
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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

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Relative Purchasing Power
Low income 1,990 or less
Upper middle income 20,001 or more
Source World Bank Indicators, 2001
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Rwanda Genocide

• Results of 1994 genocide
• Over 800,000 killed during 100-day period
• 50 of women widowed
• 70 of women raped
• 80 women HIV-positive 25 women full-blown
  AIDS
• 500,000 children orphaned
• 300,000 children need trauma therapy

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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 AE African Partners

• Our scope ALL major cities of Africa
• Current African offices

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The AE Partnership

• The Mission of African Enterprise
• To reach the cities of Africa through word and
  deed in partnership with the church since 1961
• An holistic approach (Word and Deed)
• Our 4 core competencies

The context of this presentation a critical
aspect of AEs work giving people hope by
helping them to earn a living
Aid Development
City Reaching
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

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

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

• 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

• Micro-business key to poverty alleviation by
  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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Restore Hope Dignity

• Form self help groups.
• Building up self worth.
• Provide skills training 7 mths
• Add seed-funding
• Provide business training 4 mths
• Form co-operatives for young
• Add Micro-Financing
• Enable adults to start businesses

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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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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 Prevention
• 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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carpentry
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Making furniture
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Empowering individuals
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shoe making
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Empowering communities
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textiles
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Taking the initiative
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Bread making
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pots from aluminium car parts
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Welding metal fabrication
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Typical African Businesses Started For 300 or
less.

• Coffee Trader 112
• Retail Shop Firewood, Bricks 75
• Sweet Banana Sales 38
• Electrical Repair shop 112
• Tea Shop 50
• Butchery 200
• Retail Shop clothing 370
• Bicycle spares shop 112
• Average s for 63 businesses 115 each.

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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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Join us and Start A Business in Africa

• Missions Fest Booth I(letter) 11 (number)
• www.AfricanEnterprise.com
• AECanada_at_AfricanEnterprise.com
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Poverty in Africa (cont.)
not to mention the crisis of

• HIV/ AIDS

• Genocide

• and War

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Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda,
South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
10 African Teams
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland,
New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK USA
10 International Support Offices
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How you can help?

• Support an AE project
• Uganda
• Revolving credit for small business development
• Offering scholarships and other study assistance
• Rwanda
• Job skills and business training for child-headed
  households
• Upgrading equipment and technology
• South Africa
• Diploma of Social Empowerment
• Pray
• Go to Africaand help??

African Enterprise Canada www.AfricanEnterprise.co
m AECanada_at_AfricanEnterprise.com 1.888.228.0930
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Tearing down walls of hatred
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and transform their own circumstances.
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to see an Africa of peace and justice.
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The AE African Partners

• Our scope ALL major cities of Africa
• Current African offices

Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Rwanda
Malawi
Congo
Zimbabwe
South Africa
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• Aid Development
• Relief and community development projects
• Training programs in social empowerment
• Emphasis is on training communities to be
  self-reliant and for economic sustainability
• Examples of projects include
• Water sanitation
• Community health care clinics

City Reaching Pan-African outreaches to major
mega cities Strategic outreach to city
leadership (business, political,
professional, young adults) Smaller outreaches
to suburbs neighborhoods Stratified
evangelism in every sector of a city Foxfire
program outreach to the youth Schools,
Universities, city youth Lay Witness Renewal
wk-ends

• Re-train former prostitutes and street kids. AIDS
  orphan care education
• Home based care for AIDS patients and AIDS
  education for adults
• Micro-enterprise and lending plans

• Reconciliation Justice
• Network and partnership with all city national
  leadership.
• Peace making between rival political groups.

• Leadership Development
• Teaching godly principles
• Africa Leadership Development
• Institute (ALDI)
• International programs
• Diploma in Social Empowerment
• Ascent leadership training course
• School leadership programs
• Short-term Mission Internship programs in Africa

• Major role in the dissolution of apartheid in
  S.A.
• Rebuilding Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Congo
• Bridge Building Encounters (countering racism)
• Koinonia cross-cultural families program
• South African Christian Leadership Assembly
  (SACLA 1979 2003)
• Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA
  1976 1994 )

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Teaching leadership and management skills
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Responding to the Issues Some Questions

• What is your response to what youve just seen
  and heard?
• Which of the key issues do you find yourself
  being drawn to?
• How do you respond, in particular, to the
  HIV/AIDS situation?

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African EnterpriseA Global Partnership Reaching
Africa for Christ

• Evangelism
• Reconciliation
• Leadership Development Training
• Relief Community Development

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AE RwandaBringing Reconciliation Healing to a
Devastated Nation

• First indigenous ministry to respond to genocide
• Prayer Network covering Rwanda
• Prison Ministry
• Inner Healing Reconciliation Seminars

• Ministry to Political Leaders
• Reconciliation Radio Broadcasting
• City Missions
• Microbusiness training for widows orphans
• Church Reconciliation

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AIDS and the Family

• 11 million children
• Are AIDS orphans in
• Africa. This rate is
• increasing.
• Most who die are
• in prime of life as
• workers and parents and could reach 250 million
  by 2020.
• Family incomes are being decimated

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Theres Hope

• Poverty and despair in Africa are not just
  Africas problem. We cannot stand aside in the
  face of hunger, disease and poverty when we know
  how to help.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for
themselves defend the rights of all those who
have nothing. Defend the rights of the poor and
needy. Prov. 31 8-9 If you have faith as
small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, Move from here to there and it will
move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Matt
1720
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HIV/AIDS

• Africa is second only to Asia in HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS is leading cause of death in
  Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa has 11 of worlds population
  and 70 of Africas HIV/AIDS cases
• 6500 Africans die every day of AIDS-related
  causes. This total is growing
• 9500 Africans a day contract HIV virus
• In 13 African countries, more than one of every
  ten adults is HIV-positive

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Leadership Development
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AfricaWomens Enterprises Tracy Stone

• Developing a Compassionate Response to the
• Crisis in Africa

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and their communities