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Simon. This is the result of our Prosperity Wages model in Northern Ghana. Simon was able to buy all of the livestock you see here because we paid him more than anyone in the world for his baskets. However, our great financial model breaks down if no one buys his baskets. That's where you come in. Every time you purchase one set of his baskets, Simon can feed his family of six 3 good meals a day for 3 days. Our Prosperity Wages model combined with Simon's ambition to weave and your purchase results in powerful teamwork that changes lives.
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Camera Aseka is proof The Blessing Basket Project Prosperity Wages financial model ends poverty. When we found him in 2005, he was hundreds of miles from home, because poverty forced him to live on the streets. His only source of income was selling his baskets to middlemen for a few pennies profit. We returned him home and started paying him Prosperity Wages to weave Blessing Baskets. Today we find Camera no longer weaving but running a successful photography business which he started with his weaving money. Camera's hard work, your purchase of his baskets, and our unique Prosperity Wages model started a chain reaction enabling him to permanently break free from the grip of poverty.
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Memuna is the first woman to open a general store in her village in Northern Ghana. Her pioneering entrepreneurial spirit was given wings thanks to the Prosperity Wages she earned from The Blessing Basket Project. Not only was she able to provide for her four children, but she also planted a large tomato crop. The money she raised from selling that crop enabled her to open this small store. She has gone on to expand the store several times, even constructing a building from which she operates her successful venture.
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| Grace Nassale. Easy access to clean water is a serious challenge for most rural Ugandan women. Blessing Basket weaver Grace Nassale saw this as a business opportunity. A government supplied water line ran through her village, inaccessible to those who truly needed it. Grace used her Prosperity Wages to buy a metered tap on the water line. She now sells clean water to her neighbors for a small profit. This is one of three sustainable sources of income Grace generated for herself using her weaving income putting her on the road to permanent financial independence. |
Harriett Nkonge is not afraid of hard work. She is one of the artisans benefiting from your purchase. Because you bought her Blessing Baskets, she was able to triple the size of her garden. She planted maize, cassava, beans, sweet potatoes and peppers just to name a few. Not only does the garden provide food for her family, but it also creates an extra source of income when she sells the excess vegetables. Through your purchases Harriett has been able to put all four of her children in school, enlarge her garden, start a chicken business, install electricity in her home and even get a cell phone. All of these things open the door to significant business opportunities for her, putting her on the road to permanent financial independence. |
Immaculate went from surviving to thriving thanks to your purchases of her Blessing Baskets. A weaver in rural Uganda, she increased her monthly earnings by more than 140% through The Blessing Basket Project's Prosperity Wage model. Using this new capital, Immaculate started several agriculture based businesses, including selling chickens and eggs. These income generating activities will soon enable her to achieve financial independence from our organization. Our measure of success is sustainable financial independence in the lives of our artisans. |
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| L.G. Sarkar is proud of her family. They live in a rented 10x10 room and, when we found them, were existing on about 75 cents a day. Desperate to ensure her children's education, poverty forced L.G. to turn to the sex trade. It’s obviously not something she’s proud of, but something she was forced to do in order to provide for her children. However, those days are behind her. One Prosperity Wage® payment from The Blessing Basket Project set her on the road to financial independence ensuring she will never again be forced to make such a desperate choice. |
Nirupama Saha wants what every mother wants for her children, a safe home, education and the
ability to feed and cloth them. When The Blessing Basket Project found her she was existing on $10 a month weaving for a basket middleman. We refuse to work with middlemen and only deal directly with the artisan. Nirupama received more money in her first Prosperity Wage® payment than she could have earned in six years from the middleman. When you purchase products from The Blessing Basket Project, be assured the artisan receives more money from us than from anyone in the world. |
Shuchitra and her husband Dominic are doing whatever they can to make ends meet. He is a carpenter, she is a weaver and together they support their daughter and Dominic's aging parents. Before we found them poverty often forced the couple to choose between their daughters education and food. Today that is no longer the case because Shuchitra weaves for The Blessing Basket Project. You bought her baskets which enabled us to pay Shuchitra more money in one Prosperity Wage® payment than she could have earned in six years from a basket middleman. |
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