6 Ways To Help Someone Become Self Reliant

Consider the six Interweave giving options below, and choose the one best for you. Each choice is an opportunity to help people create a sustainable future for themselves.

Dollar a Day

Giving a dollar a day enables those living on less than a dollar a day to lift themselves out of poverty. A pledge of $30 a month achieves that goal. Your contribution - large or small - provides mentoring, training, peer support and loans to lift the lives of the poorest of the poor. A one-time gift changes lives, but ongoing support continues the process years after year. Your continuing commitment becomes a gift that keeps giving.

Great Associations

Sponsor a Self-Reliance Association and connect with a group of people who are helping each other learn, improve their businesses and solve community problems. This is an investment in local social capital – trust, motivation, problem-solving volunteerism, leadership – that will sustain communities long after Interweave leaves.

Learn to Earn

For individuals struggling to survive, you fund the instruction, mentoring or materials they need to learn how to sustain themselves. Give a participant a mini scholarship, provide training for an Interweave coach, or pay for Interweave manuals like Success! (6P business training),and Neighbors Working Together (guides local associations).

Bridges of Prosperity

“Families Helping Families” Simple tools to help your family, especially your children, become engaged in doing good. Advisors help your family establish a legacy of generous prosperity for yourselves, your children and Interweave projects. Everyone gains.

SaintToSaint.org

Loans for good people to reach out to other good people around the world. Visit SaintToSaint.org. Choose a family business you can support. Donate to their loan fund and track their progress. Share your visit with others.

Social Businesses

Help expand innovative triple-bottom line businesses that provide return in three areas – jobs, environment and social impact. Current examples - an affordable private school in an area with no schools, clean water distribution, and honey production. Profits stay in-country and provide on-going funding for local Interweave programs.