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Empowerment through Savings
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Tabitha-Cambodia
works with the poorest members of the community, encouraging
them to save and work their way out of poverty.
Many poor Cambodian families have no house and virtually no possessions. Despite this, most generate a meager weekly income.
Tabitha helps these families to develop a vision of a better life and encourages them to join the Savings Program.
Tabitha’s Savings Program recognizes the inherent desire of people to take control of their own lives, allowing them to decide on their own needs and assisting them in achieving their goals. Joining the savings program is a giant step towards rebuilding trust; Tabitha recognizes and rewards that trust in the form of payment of 10 percent interest on their savings. Tabitha places no stress or risk on a family by accepting any amount, no matter how small, allowing even the poorest to participate in the program.
Tabitha’s Savings Program results in a direct reduction of the physical and emotional abuse endemic in most poor Cambodian families. Discouragement and fatalism are replaced by accomplishment and hope. By rebuilding the family unit, in time you build a stronger community.
Savings allows the people to break
the “cycle of
poverty” and provides them with INDEPENDENCE, DIGNITY and SELF
ESTEEM.
It empowers them!
(On average, Tabitha’s relationship with a family on the Savings Program will last for seven years. This is long enough to allow people to break the cycle of poverty and graduate to complete financial independence.)
You can help Tabitha by providing the funds necessary to pay out the interest. Please donate now! »
