Small Economic Development (SED) and Women Empowerment AusAid through ADRA Australia (July 2008 - June 2009) AUS 115,000 Jakarta, Indonesia Small Economic Development (SED) and Women Empowerment Project in Jakarta had run for 6 years and had helped hundreds of women to get a better life for themselves and their families. It had been a long and tough road to deliver the messages of improvement, hard-working and sustainability among the beneficiaries. ADRA had been partnering with the beneficiaries through vocational training, capacity building and assistance in small enterprise both organizing of cooperatives and businesses.
The cooperatives PJs were listening seriously the explanation about cooperative member activation methods.
ADRA believes that by having knowledge and practical experience, cooperative members will be able to manage their small enterprise to alleviate them up from the cycle of poverty. SED has entered the phasing out period in June 2009. Three licensed cooperatives with more than 300 registered members had been prepared to run independently under government supervision. The cooperatives have built the awareness and trust of the community around by having more than 800 nonmembers per year to access loan and actively save their money. Thank you ADRA Australia for the continued partnership and support.
A woman receiving a gift after winning the creativity game in Puncak.
Tsunami Rehabilitation Through Small Enterprise Development ADRA Czech (July 2008 - June 2010) USD 100,000 Pangandaran - West Java, Indonesia Tsunami Rehabilitation through Small Enterprise Development in Pangandaran Project has started last July 2008. The main goal of this project is to enable the tsunami victims of Pangandaran to recover their businesses and improve their quality of life in a sustainable way. Mrs Rini, age 38, a homeless lady attained her dream from a small enterprise. Before tsunami, she had a small shop selling daily groceries like coffee, instant noodles and sugar. This business was lost after the tsunami in July 2006 in Pangandaran. She wanted to start the same business as before. However she had no capital to start with. ADRA came to offer a program to help women’s businesses in small scale. After she joined the group training, she understood that ADRA program is good and easy.
ADRA give program orientation to beneficiaries.
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She has been happy with the group activities and ADRA support. ADRA provided trainings to the beneficiaries before disbursing soft loans that will enable them to use for small business purposes. Intensive personal visit is being conducted, giving support and knowledge to the beneficiaries to develop their businesses.
Mrs Rini said her life before was miserable and hopeless. She had no work and home but now with the support from ADRA, she is more hopeful to have a brighter future.