NEEDY SUPPORT CENTRE

Income Generating Activities

Income Generating Activities (IGA) are designed to empower women and men living in extreme poverty and/or affected by HIV/AIDS with the entrepreneurial skills to start small businesses for their families.  This project focuses on caregivers who adopt and take care of children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.  They are given the skills to start their own businesses which are used as economic models for others in their community.  

Needy Support Centre assists members with the development of business ideas and business plans that are designed to increase their income levels from the poverty line of less than a dollar a day to at least five dollars a day.  Priority is given to activities that have a short payback period and offer a sustainable income solution.  

Goal

The primary goal is to enable people living in poverty to improve their living conditions and be able to afford school fees for their children and the orphans they care for.  

Activities

The IGA that members participate include:

• street vending - selling maize, ground nuts, fruit, and other food stuffs 

• selling firewood, charcoal, packaging material, scholastic and instructional materials

• craft making - handmade paper beads are made into necklaces, bracelets and earrings

• simsim paste - simsim and ground nuts are made into a paste which is similar to peanut butter