Small Business Initiative
We provide a holistic program that tackles the main injustices affecting vulnerable women by equipping them to start their own small businesses.
Creating Opportunity through Small Business Development
Tirzah’s Regional Leaders see the injustices women in their communities face and have deep desires to create opportunity for change. Tirzah’s Small Business Initiative is opening the door to possibilities for women who have been marginalized because of HIV/AIDS, trafficking, and poverty. This two-year holistic program not only creates economic opportunity and stability but also helps women discover their God-given value.
Year one focuses on small-business training, developing a business plan, and opening a savings account. In year two, women may apply for small loans to launch their business with continued support from Tirzah’s Regional Leaders.
Gathering together on a weekly basis creates a sisterhood. As these women grow close to one another, Tirzah provides them with practical, holistic care, meeting immediate needs such as food baskets, medical care, or support for sending children to school. Many sisters grow in their faith and knowledge of God’s love as they engage in the Bible study that compliments the Get HOPE small-business training program. The Small Business Initiative is empowering women to have a sustainable source of income and live confident, purposeful lives while embracing their self-worth.
Meet Angelina
Angelina is from a village in Zimbabwe where education is not the main priority; especially not for girls. She only received a few years of schooling and married young, but she held onto the dream of having a job and earning her own income. Angelina was raised on a peanut farm and learned how to grind them into peanut butter. She thought this skill could evolve into a thriving business but did not have the money for the peanuts or to start a company. Thanks to the small business training program, Angelina has launched her peanut butter company! Before she was concerned about having enough money to put her son through college. Now she is confident that through the peanut butter project there will be enough money for her son’s education.
Angelina is so excited to see the potential in her business and attribute all of it to God.
“God is not as far as we thought. He hears us and responds to our needs at the appropriate time. Just before my son dropped out of school, God brought this project to life to hold my son there.”
— Angelina