Family Hope International

Family preservation and empowerment program: our program sets families free from extreme poverty through our four-fold strategy of embrace, equip, empower, and employ. Embrace - needy families are embraced into our program with support from u.s. sponsors, our local indigenous church partners, and our program case managers.equip - we provide assistance to families in order to meet various basic needs such as food, water, clothing, education supplies, school fees, rent assistance, medicine, and medical care.

In ethiopia, there were 468 families that included 1,604 total individuals served. The program is developed in 6 geographic areas in ethiopia: bole bulbula and meseret kristos project areas near the capital city of addis ababa; shashemene, hanicha and gutumuma project areas in the southern region; and the dembidollo project area in the western region. These regions were selected due to the concentration of extreme poverty as well as access to markets for small business starts. The program served 100 families for 520 individuals in kenya. The program is also in one of the largest slums in the world: the kibera slum in nairobi, kenya. The project area was also selected due to extreme poverty conditions, the need for intervention and good opportunity for small business success for the families in our program.

Empower - once a Family's basic needs are met, we evaluate them for a small business opportunity and microloan. Our program business managers begin to work closely with our families to train and mentor them on how to successfully operate their business. Employ - our program business managers work closely with our families over the next two years. We then graduate these families from our program with a successful and sustainable business.our Family preservation program successfully served 568 families for 2,124 individuals in ethiopia and kenya during this reporting period.