Mona Louifils currently buys and sells cookies and candies, but she dreams of the day when she can put her training as a seamstress to work. While she does not yet have enough money to pursue her dream, Mona is saving $2.52 a week as a member of a HOPE Haiti savings group, called “Christ is our only hope,” and plans on investing her savings in a sewing machine. “I enjoy this program because it has taught me to save,” says Mona. “I thank God for…introducing me to this program.”
![Before Eveness Mulungu joined the Walusungu (“mercy”) savings group through our church partner in Malawi, she faced days where she and her family ate animal feed because they couldn’t afford human food. But that changed when she joined the savings group. Eveness used her first group loan of about $1.70 (U.S.) to start a business selling doughnuts and beans.
“By the end of my first cycle I made $140 (U.S.),” Eveness shared. “My life is no longer the same now; [I] was regarded as no one in the community. ... This was the first time in my life that I ever touched and owned big money like this!”
Pictured: Eveness, with her husband in front of their piggery—a third successful business that she operates.](https://blog.hopeinternational.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)