Livelihoods Solutions - Total Costs: $ 50,000

• From widows struggling to support their orphaned children, to families who are in poverty, one donation to Livelihoods Solutions could help countless people.
 
• When one person is able to earn an income, the whole family – children, spouses, grandparents – benefit. When one business start-up loan is repaid – and 98% of our interest-free loans are repaid – the money can be used to help another family, and another.
 
• Our focus is on ensuring that people have better access to food. This means providing the tools, knowledge and training to enable people to become more self-sufficient.
 
• Through community livelihood programmes, our goal is to empower people, build social inclusion and provide pathways to sustainable livelihoods.

Pearl Charity Empowers poor African children, women and families to escape poverty through community-based self-help programs that improve health, expand education, create businesses, and protect wildlife.

Our Philosophy!

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day: Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

It is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something (for themselves) than to do it for them (on an ongoing basis). Teaching someone how to grow their own food will be beneficial for them in the long run and at the same time helping to reduce the poverty rate.

Our livelihood projects!

• Sewing machines for 200 Muslim women.
• Beekeeping training and equipment for 50 women groups.
• Chicken farming to 100 women.
• Farming tools and seeds for 1000 families.
• Livestock (3 goats) for 1000 women across.
• Small shops for 50 Muslim women.
• Tailoring skill to 200 women.

 

These programms are not only designed to move individuals, or households, above a certain income/asset threshold but address the root causes and obstacles that prevent people from escaping poverty.

The approach works by targeting extremely poor households and delivering an integrated package of support. As a result, families have more options for making a living and are more resilient to shocks and stresses.

Core Components

Comprehensive targeting: Making sure extreme poor households are identified as programme participants.

Income support: Helping programme participants meet their basic needs as they invest in livelihood development activities.

Technical and business skills training: Enhancing human capital and facilitating income generation through small businesses or by aiding access to employment.

Coaching and mentoring: Supporting participants to make plans to meet their goals, encouraging certain behavioural changes and offering guidance on how to address specific problems they faced.

Facilitating access to financial services and promoting saving: To help extremely poor people manage risk, build resilience to lifecycle shocks and stresses, and reduce the likelihood of having to resort to negative coping strategies.

Capital/asset transfer: To help participants establish new, or expand existing, economic activities. Most commonly this is used for establishing/expanding a small business but it can feasibly be used to support access to employment.