it's God that deserves the praise.
to work with that territory and to
gain the kinds of relationships
needed meant that we were able
to prepare 25 women, all who now
have their own small business,
such as selling vegetables and
knitting clothing. They are gener-
ating funds to support their own
families while collaborating as a
group to support some orphans in
the community as well.
ditionally defined. For instance,
we don't work with banks to get
loans. People come together for
training in finances and literacy,
and they put small amounts of
money together in a type of joint
savings. As they up their business
they can borrow small sums of
money, which they pay back with
interest so that the pot grows. It's
their money.
ment funding over that time pe-
riod. We've implemented impor-
tant projects around the world,
some of which are still operating.
We've had very good relationships
with other non�governmental or-
ganizations (NGOs) working in the
field and we've partnered with a
number of different organizations
such as World Vision. This will
continue and even increase. We
want to be more purposeful in how
we set up projects, making sure
that we are building capacity in
people locally to lead projects and
that communities are actually buy-
ing in and helping to build the pro-
posals. We want to make projects
more sustainable so their impact
continues 15 years later. We are
an intermediary working on be-
half of The Salvation Army in the
United States. That's the new way
we are getting into fundraising.
We'll be approaching foundations,
corporations and major donors.
is given out and since 80% of our
existence depended on that we re-
alized that we needed to do some-
thing. For the future, our hope will
be that we maintain our govern-
ment share. It will not be the ma-
jority of the funding. It will prob-
ably be about 30�40%. SAWSO
wants to be known as an organiza-
tion that adds value to all of it's
partners, whether it's a donor part-
ner or an implementing partner.
has a lot of schools around the
often when the money runs out
the problems remain. When we
get involved at the grassroots we
help communities make their own
plans and to set goals and to help
themselves.
what projects are available. We
also develop good relationships
with territories so we can help
them sort out their ongoing chal-
lenges. In the future we will be
helping territories implement
self�assessments and evaluate
their own capacity to implement
various programs and projects, as-
sisting them as necessary so proj-
ects can be much more successful
and sustainable.
in the world.
term and long�term goals and
outcomes and then throughout the
life of a project we will monitor
and evaluate the work. If a gov-
ernment grant is involved there's
lots of requirements and we en-
sure that the people meet those
requirements and report on them.
call. It's nothing more than we're
expected to do, according to Scrip-
ture. Doing the most with what
God has given you--that's our aim.