Uganda
Grace Nassale. Easy access to clean water is a serious challenge for most rural Ugandan women. Blessing Basket weaver Grace Nassale saw this as a business opportunity. A government supplied water line ran through her village, inaccessible to those who truly needed it. Grace used her Prosperity Wages to buy a metered tap on the water line. She now sells clean water to her neighbors for a small profit. This is one of three sustainable sources of income Grace generated for herself using her weaving income putting her on the road to permanent financial independence.	Harriett Nkonge is not afraid of hard work. She is one of the artisans who benefits from your purchase. She used the Prosperity Wages® we pay her to enlarge her garden, buy a sewing machine and take sewing classes, put all four of her children in school, start a chicken business, and most importantly, install electricity in her home. Installing electricity lead to her most prized purchase, a cell phone.  Harriett now makes more money charging cell phones in a week than she did working in the garden for a month.  She has clearly started her sustainable exit from poverty because of your support.	Immaculate went from surviving to thriving thanks to your purchases of her Blessing Baskets. A weaver in rural Uganda, she increased her monthly earnings by more than 140% through The Blessing Basket Project's Prosperity Wage model. Using this new capital, Immaculate started several agriculture based businesses, including selling chickens and eggs. These income generating activities will soon enable her to achieve financial independence from our organization. Our measure of success is sustainable financial independence in the lives of our artisans. Thanks to your purchases Immaculate graduated from poverty and exited our program in in 2010.

 

Bangladesh
L.G. Sarkar is proud of her family. They live in a rented 10x10 room and, when we found them, were existing on about 75 cents a day. Desperate to ensure her children's education, poverty forced L.G. to turn to the sex trade. It’s obviously not something she’s proud of, but something she was forced to do in order to provide for her children. However, those days are behind her. One Prosperity Wage® payment from The Blessing Basket Project set her on the road to financial independence ensuring she will never again be forced to make such a desperate choice.  Thanks to your purchases L.G. graduated from poverty and exited our program in January of 2013.	Nirupama Saha wants what every mother wants for her children, a safe home, education and the ability to feed and cloth them. When The Blessing Basket Project found her she was existing on $10 a month weaving for a basket middleman. We refuse to work with middlemen and only deal directly with the artisan. Nirupama received more money in her first  Prosperity Wage® payment than she could have earned in six years from the middleman. When you purchase products from The Blessing Basket Project, be assured the artisan receives more money from us than from anyone in the world. Thanks to your purchases Nirupama graduated from poverty and exited our program in January of 2013.	Shuchitra and her husband Dominic are doing whatever they can to make ends meet. He is a carpenter, she is a weaver and together they support their daughter and Dominic's aging parents. Before we found them poverty often forced  the couple to choose between their daughters education and food. Today that is no longer the case because Shuchitra weaves for The Blessing Basket Project. You bought her baskets which enabled us to pay Shuchitra more money in one Prosperity Wage® payment than she could have earned in six years from a basket middleman.  Thanks to your purchases Shuchitra graduated from poverty and exited our program in January of 2013.