For just $150, you can support the establishment or enhancement of a family small business in Nepal. The business’ are run by mothers who are the family’s breadwinner and your $150 makes the world of difference. Your donation provides business advice, health lectures, nutritional training courses, emotional support and financial guidance.
By sponsoring this program, you will:
- Enable families to help themselves to have enough to eat.
- Enable families to help themselves toward safety and security.
- Enable families to educate their children and realise potential futures.
- Develop a culture of saving – both at an adult and student level.
Once an entreprenneurial mother is supported with a donation, a training program is developed if required, including where appropriate, the understanding of the basics of business management and savings, of conservation of some profits for contingencies and the careful forward planning needed in each micro business.
To ensure that particpants are being provided the best help that we can offer, a representative visits a sample of the projects during each six monthly visit.
This important program helps communities help themselves on a sustainable basis.On 12 August 2009 US President Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the micro credit movement that has advantaged tens of millions of poor families. With our Small Business Support we are is following this lead.
Ashmita is Nepali mother of 2 boys whose husband has abandoned the family. She worked as a piece worker in a small clothing factory sewing on buttons and making buttonholes. Her income is about NPR 2,200 per month – not sufficient for her to feed clothe and educate her sons as well as pay the rent of NPR 1,500.4.
The three lives are confined to one room with no running water, toilet, or heating. Through Small Business Support, as an SME, she was able to follow her dream to own and run a small restaurant. She has been able to establish a small curry house on a main corner in her suburb of Nayabazar in Kathmandu and can accommodate 6 clients at a time.
In order to protect her earnings, she has her daily takings collected by Small Business Support and banked in her name and for her use only.
You too can support a women like Ashmita in turn support her family. Contact Canhelp for futher information on how to help, donate or sponsor.
