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Global Business Assist helps empower the poor to help themselves through micro-financing, business training and community .

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GBA Snapshot Feb 2009

Global Business Assist helps empower the poor to help themselves through micro-financing, business training and community .

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around the world

February 09
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A Little Goes a Long Way


J ust north of the town of Akuem, in the remote state of Bahr el Ghazal in Southern Sudan, agricultural
cultivation goes on much as it has for centuries. Occasionally, a Sudanese family may gain access to
some new tools to greatly assist in their
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painstaking labor – a much needed blessing as


they toil under the hundred plus degree sun.
But more often than not, plots are small, the
work is difficult, and families barely eke out a
living in this harsh environment. Under such
difficult working conditions, it is no wonder that
few Sudanese live to reach fifty years of age.
But in this era of modern technology, solutions
to increase the crop yields of these farmers and
ease their manual labor are uncomplicated – and
inexpensive. You see, in Southern Sudan a little
gift can go a long way toward helping the least
fortunate.
Take, for instance, the Christmas gift of a GBA
donor this year for two villages in Bahr el Ghazal Two young farmers working their field in
in the towns of Marolwol and Warawar. With a Northern Bahr el Ghazal
donation of just $400, the following purchases and
transformation took place for two agricultural groups of forty women each:
3 treadle pumps for water
6 sets of piping for irrigation
48 hoes
8 kilograms of okra seed
9 kilograms of watermelon seed
9 kilograms of eggplant seed
One quarter kilogram of onion seed
One quarter kilogram of tomato seed
70 buckets
$100 remaining for agricultural training for these women
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M icro - credit f or S udan ’ s


Bahr el Ghazal region...

As little as a hundred dollars can


transform a family forever.
A
s a result of this one $400
gift, over eighty women
and just as many families
have been empowered to
help themselves! How many times
have you seen such a small amount
of money positively impact the lives
so many?
For GBA this is only the beginning
in Bahr el Ghazal. In the fall of 2009,
GBA and its partners hope to create
the first micro-lending institution in
the Akuem region. Working through
women in local churches and others
in the community, our plan is to
provide both the training and capital
necessary to pull hundreds, if not
thousands of families out of extreme
poverty in this region.
More than ever, GBA needs your Sudanese women with their Christmas gift
partnership to accomplish this of empowerment
monumental goal. A few small
agricultural gifts to an area are
rather straightforward, but it is entirely another matter to create a financial institution that can
successfully manage hundreds of loans and their repayment. Our success in Ghana has proven we
have the tools necessary to accomplish this ambitious goal. However, in this challenging economic
time, GBA has yet to secure the funding for this new venture.
Sixty-five thousand dollars is what is required to be available by September in order to change the
lives of thousands in Bahr el Ghazal through this Enterprise Relief effort.

Will you consider being a part of a historic opportunity


in an area of Sudan that has never seen this type
of capacity-building assistance? Thank you for your
confidence in GBA as we change the world –
one small business at a time.

Sincerely -

Douglas Mann,
President

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