{"id":32777,"date":"2021-11-01T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/?page_id=32777"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T08:47:12","slug":"entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/human-development\/entrepreneurship\/32777\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than half of Malawi\u2019s population live below the poverty line for a variety of reasons, with poor education, a lack of resources and opportunity at the core of the problem. With a shoddy foundation upon which to rely, living standards remain inferior and the cycle of poverty continues, resulting in malnutrition which exacerbates the inability of people to work effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through our entrepreneurship project, Gift of the Givers trains individuals to successfully manage small businesses, by selling high-demand products, such as fresh produce and providing a range of services, such as dressmaking.&nbsp; Training includes budgeting skills and, once complete, budding entrepreneurs are equipped raw materials, a bicycle with vending carriers - if needed - and start-up capital. By providing the quintessential tools for successful entrepreneurship, this grass-roots project breaks the cycle of poverty one family at a time. The income earned meets the individual's immediate needs and perpetually sustains families over generations through the development of individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of Malawi\u2019s population live below the poverty line for a variety of reasons, with poor education, a lack of resources and opportunity at the core of the problem. With a shoddy foundation upon which to rely, living standards remain inferior and the cycle of poverty continues, resulting in malnutrition which exacerbates the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76,200,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giftofthegivers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}