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Of the 860 million people in sub Sahara Africa, 70% of the adults or 200 million families are earning less than $3 day. That means, each child and adult in an average family size of 4, are living below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. The 110 million mothers in this group often, are the sole providers with full commitment for the welfare of the children. With a daily income so low, only women can s-t-r-e-t-c-h these scarce dollars. At ICAfrica, we have proven this through our pilot projects in several African communities. We have proven that women are generally more productive at leveraging small amounts to support more “mouths”.

We know that the micro-enterprising woman are always looking for how to stretch their trading capitals to yield more daily profits that goes first, to feed their children, their families and lastly the woman.

This is why it is not a hard decision for ICAfrica to give a micro-loan of $50 to a woman micro-entrepreneur because she “carries the load”, has the strength and the ability to stretch the dollar profits around the children, family food, health, housing, education, social and community development. Ability to stretch scarce properly invested dollars mean that more people can escape extreme poverty sooner and help the UN achieve many aspects of the Millennium Development Goal.

Please support ICAfrica to help change the future for the children of Africa through empowering their mothers.

Eugene Nzeribe
Ottawa, July 01 2011.