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Why do you use savings groups instead of microloans?
We use savings groups because they put decision making and cash in the hands of community members from the start. Savings groups promote empowerment, build community, and can become a...
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Do you provide start-up capital to the savings groups?
No, Plant With Purpose does not provide start-up capital. The groups' savings and equity is comprised solely of the group members' capital. Plant With Purpose does not inject capital into...
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How do savings groups work?
...that can help community members during a time of crisis. Local groups are in charge of electing their own officers, setting their own specific bylaws, and keeping their own records....
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All, Tanzania
The Gold Mine of Local Ingenuity
...because Plant With Purpose has helped me with these projects as you see. I spread the knowledge to neighbors when they come,” explains Wilson. Plant With Purpose exists to help...
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All, Updates
The WHY behind our website
You may have noticed we’ve got a new look. If you’re reading this post, you are most likely on the new plantwithpurpose.org. This month, we re-launched our digital home. Our...
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All, Living Sustainably, Updates
How to support local communities while traveling
...in the best ethical or environmental conditions. Instead, find opportunities to buy things made by local populations. In Plant With Purpose’s program in Oaxaca, handmade goods are an opportunity for...
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All, Updates
Three ways to celebrate Earth Day
...the confines of settled spaces. Let yourself delight in God’s artistry. A Plant With Purpose volunteer at an Earth Day event in San Diego Celebrate at a community event In...
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About Our Work, Academic, Sustainability
People are more than their problems
...for program participants to see their financial resources grow. Transformation is incomplete without a reinvigorated sense of one’s value and purpose. Our work is rooted in the belief that all...
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About Our Work, Sustainability
Theology in Action: How Faith Shapes Sustainability
At its core, Christian environmentalism is about transformation—of hearts, habits, and habitats; theology in action. Faith-based environmental organizations, such as Plant With Purpose, operate on the belief that the ecological...
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All, Dominican Republic, Updates
Putting the world's biggest problems in reverse
...Plant With Purpose group that focused on environmental, economic, and spiritual interventions. Juan learned new sustainable farming techniques in order to grow more crops while restoring his land. He started...
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Plant With Purpose talks about tree growing instead of tree planting. What does that mean?
We apply a Community Designed Restoration approach which puts the decisions about what trees to plant, and where, in the hands of individual farmers and their local groups. Plant With...
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Meditations, Sustainability
We're Resurrection People, After All!
...at Plant With Purpose. We believe that there is hope, but that part of having hope includes doing our part to protect the most vulnerable. Admiration As the number of...
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All, DR Congo, Meditations
Even though they won’t benefit me now.
...Plant With Purpose offers this training as part of its core program. It helps those who earn a living by earning the land realize the God-given purpose within their work....
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blog, Mexico
The Evidence of a Changed Life
...graph or summarized in a statistic. It’s expressed in the way people begin to see themselves, their neighbors, their community, and the world around them. At Plant With Purpose, we...
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