Micro-business in Maputo, Mozambique

Mozambique micro-business

We are pleased to announce that Orphan Hope has finally been able to launch a micro-business loan program! Kutwanana, located in Maputo, Mozambique, offers home-based health care and programs for orphans and vulnerable children. These micro-business loans have been offered specifically to their care workers who are mothering orphans in their own homes. In helping these women to support themselves, Kutwanana is setting a vision in their congregation and community for orphan care and Christian ministry. Those who give themselves for the work of God are being blessed with a livelihood--a rarity in this area. Businesses started to date include gathering and selling firewood, raising chickens, and selling plasticware.

They are already so excited about its success that they want to do much more. God willing, we will be able to help them. If you would like to donate to this work, click on the donate button and designate to micro-business loans.

Mama Sonia walks through

town selling jars and basins.








She hangs her wares outside her hut when she
is not walking around the town.








Mama Sonia also sells a variety of vegetables and washing detergent.









Mama Adelina, her husband, Sozinho, and their daughter, Tusha sell wood from their home.













They buy the wood that is then brought to their house and cut up to sell.











Mama Gentrude sells vegetables, salt, oil, and tea.









Most of these women receive $20US per month to manage their business. They meet together weekly with Pastors Patrick and Grace Mulenga for counsel, brainstorming and encouragement. There are many opportunities here to learn about budgeting and money management. The understanding is that if the women do not make an effort to sell they will not receive their monthly money.
These women are making a great effort through our gifts to them. God is working amazingly through the lives of Patrick, Grace, and Shula there and through the prayers of supporters here. Please keep them in your prayers as there is still much to do with the micro-business loans and other projects underway.