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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

42 % of the population in sub-Saharan Africa lives on less than $1/day. The world's poorest people must be entreprenuerial to survive. Using these skills in combination with KickStart's tools, over 50,000 families have started profitable businesses which generate over $52 million in new profits and wages each year. These business owners can now afford to educate their children, provide the family with health care, and plan for a brighter future. Help us enable 1000s more to escape poverty.

Activities

KickStart develps and markets money-making tools. Our manual irrigation pumps enable poor farmers to grow high-value crops in the dry season to increase their incomes ten-fold., and for the first time properly look after their families.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $120,163

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $120,163.  The original project funding goal was $200,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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