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Our Mission
To relieve extreme poverty in the population by creating jobs though assisting capable local micro entrepreneurs and farmers with business expansion coaching and micro-credit, while providing work-skills training, ensuring gender equality and environmental sustainability.  
    
 Canadian Charity  BN: 87409 1242 RR0002
     
We have all heard the news, several times over .... about the acute poverty situations in Africa. We now know conclusively, that most of this poverty is due to lack of jobs. Here is a region of 780 million where the majority of the able-bodied adults are underemployed or totally jobless. All they are asking for, is an opportunity to have jobs and earn fair-wages to take care of their  children. We can’t continue to ignore this fact in a relatively rich world that we live in today. Each one of us can do something small to help put each one of the 500 million people living on less than $1 a day, on their feet. At ICA, our mandate is to fight poverty through removing obstacles that prevent people from getting into employment and participating in economic activities.
     
 

fighting poverty through jobs creation 

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65% of the 780 million people in sub-Sahara Africa in 2008, are still living in abject poverty. Barely surviving on less than $1 a day. 

This is so because manpower in the region is grossly under-utilized, resulting in overall poor economic performance and therefore not yielding the jobs required for the growing population.   

  

   At ICA, we have no doubt that wide-spread micro-enterprise development is the required solution now!
 
When micro entrepreneurs and farmers receive the proper coaching; assisted  in products and markets development; provided the right amounts of "seed money" in the form of a revolving micro-loans, they will grow their ventures and create the required new jobs.

    Families will earn fair wages, move out of poverty and take care of their children's needs in food, housing, clothing, education, etc. 

    

  
People in Africa do not need hand-outs. They are seeking generous hands to help pull them up, onto the ladder of economic growth. We believe that the hands will come from men and women of goodwill from around the world. 

Please join our team and help bring the solution. DONATE NOW
  

 

 machine shop entrepreneur
Self employed woman in Owerri 
Training for job

Grateful to have jobs!
Like all of us, they just want to live happy lives
 

  
  
   

  
 

 
 

   
Only one in a hundred women and one in seventy-five men who would like to, and can run their own self-employment ventures, are able to do so.
  

 

  

 

 

  

    
In sub-Sahara Africa, things don't cost as much as they do in western societies. They also do not consume as much as people elsewhere
 

 

 

 

 

Average salary (2008) is $2500 per year and this is a good pay and a "happy life" income in most of sub-Sahara