Five Talents empowers the poor through community savings and small business development. Commended by resolution at the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Five Talents was created as a long-term response to the ravages of poverty that debilitate communities in developing countries.
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The founders, including Anglican Church leaders, talked about the plight of the poor and those dying of famine, AIDS/HIV and other diseases. They wanted not only to assist but also to guard the dignity of the poor, many of whom survive on $1 a day, by supporting them in small businesses. Today, Five Talents is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. We have offices in London and Kampala, Uganda, as well as an office in the southeast US that coordinates our Latin American program and curriculum development. We are supported by hundreds of volunteers across the US and the UK.
The founders, including Anglican Church leaders, talked about the plight of the poor and those dying of famine, AIDS/HIV and other diseases. They wanted not only to assist but also to guard the dignity of the poor, many of whom survive on $1 a day, by supporting them in small businesses. Today, Five Talents is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. We have offices in London and Kampala, Uganda, as well as an office in the southeast US that coordinates our Latin American program and curriculum development. We are supported by hundreds of volunteers across the US and the UK.
Mission: Five Talents transforms lives through economic empowerment. Our vision is to eradicate extreme poverty by restoring human dignity and creating strong, sustainable communities. We do this through strong local partnerships, literacy and business skills training, community savings, and business development.
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Our members operate many essential small businesses. These businesses sustain not only their family but their community. Learn more about our members and their businesses by visiting our website. Link in bio.
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Many of our members in DR Congo have finished sitting their literacy examinations! We're proud of what they accomplished in the past year. ⠀
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#drcongo #drc #literacy #lesson #exam #reading #writing #numeracy #proud #pride #accomplishment
Happy New Year! Your support empowers entrepreneurs around the world to take control of their financial futures and become business owners. Thank you for a wonderful 2020. Here's to making 2021 even better!⠀
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#tanzania #africa #new #year #newyear #newyears #support #empower #empowerment #entrepreneur #finance #future
#microfinance #business #owner #smallbusiness
Thank you so much for your support this year - which we've needed more than ever before. In 2021, with your help we are determined to reach even more communities around the world to help them rebuild and create a brighter future!
Join us in reflecting on what we’ve achieved together during 2020. Thank you for walking with Five Talents. #BetterTogether
with: Bill Eggbeer, Maria Owen, Sarah Robarge Herndon, Jim Oakes, Kathleen Golden Crow, James Lewis, Kim Pacala, Liz Kim Ha, Sarah Brown Nunez, Peterson Karanja
Our Savings Groups provide a support network for members. They can find business advice from fellow entrepreneurs to build and grow their businesses and support their families.
📸: @rossoscarknight
#burundi #savingsgroups #support #network #business #fivetalents #entrepreneurs
We are big believers in small businesses. To date we've transformed the lives of over 200,000 households around the world. We believe everyone should have a safe place to save plus the opportunity to: develop their skills; build their business; educate their children and feed their whole family, to the benefit of the entire community.
#smallbusiness #households #opportunity #family #educate #children
There's only a few days left in 2020. End this challenging year on a positive note by making a difference with Five Talents. #Transformation #Hope #EconomicEmpowerment
Five Talents works to build micro-businesses and empower families living in extreme poverty. Find out how you can play a part in transforming lives through economic empowerment.
Thank you for your continued prayers for the women and men who are a part of this ministry. Our members are resilient and used to adapting their businesses, but they are encouraged knowing their friends are continuing to pray for them.
📸:@adamdickens
Many of our members have agricultural businesses which supply food for their families that they can also sell on within their community! Our members utilize their resources and talents to create better opportunities for their family.
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#myanmar #argriculture #business #agribusiness #supply #food #family #sell #community #resources #talents #better #opportunity
"I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exalt in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation..."
~Isaiah 61:10
May you have a joy-filled Christmas and New Year!
"This year has taught us that the future is not ours, it is in the hands of God... People are looking after one another. We are part of a community."
#ChristmasEve #community #future #celebration #support #family
Five Talents leaders and partners around the world have a special message to share with you. The resilience, innovation and compassion of our trainers and Savings Groups members across the world constantly inspires us. In 2021, with your help we are determined to reach even more communities around the world to help them rebuild and create a brighter future. Thank you again for walking with Five Talents! May the joy of Christmas be yours! Liz Kim Ha Maria Owen Dave Chaves Sarah Brown Nunez Sarah Robarge Herndon Corky Eddins Bill Eggbeer Jim Oakes
“Elimu haina mwisho.” This Kiswahili proverb literally means ‘education has no end.’ In our programs we find you are never too old to learn a new skill. Learning and training helps our members achieve their dreams.
Five Talents conducted a pilot program for #trauma #healing workshops in the Diocese of Renk in #SouthSudan. One of our program coordinators shared:
"We believe that God is calling this program to restore #hope, #peace and #harmony in our #communities. Different communities will again sit together and discuss issues affecting them and the way forward instead of dwelling around hatred and conflicts."
Today I’d like to introduce you to a Five Talents #SavingsGroup. This picture was taken in a rural village in the central part of #SouthSudan. In the background, you can see one of the member’s homes, a traditional “tukul”, or round hut. . .read more:
Learn more about the power of community savings in this inspiring photograph from South Sudan.
Despite the unanticipated challenges of 2020, it has been a blessed year of growth for Five Talents. Working alongside our partners on the groups, both the content and reach of Five Talents programs expanded. In the past year, valuable #partnerships enabled us to reach over 9,000 new members with #savings and #business skills #training.
How do you remain #resilient in difficult times? Our members remain resilient by finding social support in their Savings Group.
📸: @biziphoto
Before joining a savings group, Lidia walked the streets of her town selling socks from a basket. Her feet were tired, she was constantly away from her children, and her income did little to provide for her family. Now, Lidia sells food at a table outside her children's school.
"The money the group gave me helped me grow my business... with my earnings I bought the materials that my children needed for school. Thank you for helping me to have my business."
#savingsgroups #business #smallbusiness #grow #food #school #children #income
Five Talents partners with the Burundi Anglican Church and Mother's Union, the largest women's ministry in Burundi, to serve the most vulnerable communities.
📸: @rossoscarknight
#fivetalents #burundi #anglican #church #mothersunion #women #network
When Covid-19 hit Myanmar, program partners found creative ways to pivot and continue supporting each other and their neighbors. Savings groups connected by phone and held weekly online church meetings.
#Myanmar #savingsgroups #pivot #neighbors #connection #church
"I am very happy for the savings program in our village. All will be well for me and my children next year. There will be no hunger again in my family now that I have cultivated my own farm."
#southsudan #happy #village #children #moms #hunger #family
Can your car handle rough roads? Five Talents works primarily in remote communities with limited infrastructure and roads. Learn more in this short reflection:
Dale Stanton-Hoyle shares about the life-saving gift of transportation and how Five Talents serves the world’s most remote communities with hope and opportunity.
What are some of your talents? Our members have many different businesses. They use their own resources and skills to build sustainable businesses that support their families. Learn more about our members and the communities we support by visiting our website. Link in bio.⠀
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Training and village savings programs served 30,000 members and 150,000 family members benefited from Five Talents ministry in the past year.
#training #savingsgroups #villages #programs #support #nonprofit
Our savings group model enables communities to not only find a sustainable way out of severe poverty, but also better weather times of intense uncertainty such as a global health pandemic. The implications of Covid-19 have made it a priority to support the resiliency and safety of our field trainers and the savings groups they oversee.
#savingsgroups #model #community #leaders #trainers #sustainability #poverty #pandemic #covid #support #fivetalents
We are so grateful for our friends around the world who have walked with us during this season. Your support is helping Five Talents weather the storm! The Five Talents family is still smiling, grateful and encouraged.
#community #family #grateful #smile #support #nonprofit
In many areas where #FiveTalents serves, savings groups continue to meet in smaller groups, with #masks and #socialdistancing. We're grateful for #technology that has helped raise #community #health #awareness, sharing text messages through local phone trees.
“A lot of things in my life changed. I have become an honest man, a modern farmer. . . I take time to listen to my children and wife and I am now a community leader in our area.”
Our members inspire us every day. Their determination and willingness to learn and save are having impacts in all areas of their lives. Read Elie's inspiring story: http://fivetalents.org/transformed-lives
#farming #agriculture #farm #farmer #agro #livestock #goats #pigs #smallbusiness #impact #family #marriage #children #community #savings #microfinance
Startling statistics emerged from our baseline survey, showing how tremendous the needs are for Five Talents' newest program in #SouthSudan: Only eight percent of female participants can read and only 5% of homes have access to a working radio. #economicempowerment
Five Talents seeks to serve the world’s most vulnerable with tools for economic empowerment. Discover what that means in this report from Terekeka, South Sudan.
Our members identify their own resources and talents to build #sustainable businesses. This means savings groups support all kinds of businesses from #salons, #tailors, #fisheries, shoemakers, bakers and even veterinary clinics.
#smallbusiness #microfinance #support
80% of Five Talents savings group members are women. Meet three of these inspiring female business owners who live in one of the most fragile regions of the world.#femaleempowerment #women #savings #brave #business #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #southsudan
The Power of Economic Development Meet some of the more than 20,000 women business-owners who are creating a brighter future in the world's most fragile state. For more stories of transformation from South Sudan, click here.
Five Talents savings groups provide a support network for members. They can find business advice from fellow entrepreneurs to build and grow their businesses and support their families.
📸: @biziphoto
#microfinance #empowerment #socialimpact #sustainablefinance #sustainabledevelopment #advice #finance #entrepreneurship #women #entrepreneur
“I bought blenders and a grinding machine, and with these instruments I can make soft drinks and juices that I sell at home.” Valentina sells 300 liters of fresh juice every week enabling her to provide for her family. Read her entire incredible story at: http://fivetalents.org/transformed-lives
#bolvia #entrepreneur #business #success #entrepreneurship #smallbusiness #businessowner #women #family #juice #freshjuice
Thank you for giving Five Talents a lift on #GivingTuesday! We are so grateful for your generosity and thanks to YOU, this work will continue to transform lives all around the world. You are truly making a difference. Thank you!
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Five Talents empowers the poor in developing countries through microenterprise. Together, we help vulnerable and poor families learn to save, invest, and start small businesses.
As a faith-based organization, we work in some of the poorest and most marginalized areas of the world, helping communities develop savings groups, offer financial services, and access financial literacy and business skills training. Over the years, Five Talents has partnered with communities in 20 countries to build savings groups and banks and has empowered over 70,000 entrepreneurs in the developing world to start more than 30,000 new businesses.
When you partner with Five Talents, you offer hope and opportunity. Learn more about how you can restore dignity and empower those trapped in poverty: www.fivetalents.org.
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