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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.
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