INCOME GENERATION

Unemployment and underemployment remain oppressively high in countries where Concern America operates. Community members are organized into cooperatives to manufacture products or provide services (brick-making, roofing tile production, herbal soap production, making of handcrafts, sewing cooperatives, food store cooperatives) which are marketable and income-producing. These cooperatives return their profits to projects which are set up to benefit the community at large, eventually making it possible for the projects to become self-sustaining. Decent-paying and meaningful jobs can become a reality in the most remote of villages, while making lives healthier, less burdensome, more fulfilling, and safer.