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ACNS 3082 - UGANDA - 7 August 2002

Uganda trip establishes work in three Dioceses

[Five Talents International] Lydia Tushabe enjoys being in business. She
started out with a little hair salon in a room by the side of a road that
runs into Kabale. With her loan from the Five Talents funded program she was
able to open a retail shop with primary sales in bananas. She purchases in
bulk and then acts as a wholesaler, selling smaller quantities to others,
who in turn sell the bananas in area village markets.

"I very much like the group weekly meetings where we talk about business and
then pray to God that He continue to strengthen us," she said.

Lydia's family is just one of the 350 families being helped by the Diocese
of Kigezi - Five Talents International program that promotes and provides
micro-business training and micro-credit loans to poor entrepreneurs. The
program also integrates biblical teaching on stewardship and business
values. The Diocese of Kigezi is located in the Kabale district in the
southwestern part of the country near the Rwandan border. The unemployment
rate is high and there are more than 50, 000 AIDS/HIV orphans.

In March 2002, a team visited the Diocese of Kigezi to support the six-month
old program. Besides visiting with the families benefiting from the program,
the group spent hours working with the Five Talents East African Regional
Director, the Revd Jonathan Byamugishi, drafting a plan that has as its goal
making the Five Talents program self-sufficient in three years. This means
that the interest and fees paid along with the principal of the loan will
cover all the operational costs and there will still be funds left for
loans.

This three-year plan was replicated in two other diocese in Uganda.
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