Today we met with our two Christian Micro-Enterprise Development (CMED) coordinators, Mario and Samuel. It is always our joy to meet with these dynamic young men and receive their reports on the many Village Savings and Loan (VSL) groups they are guiding throughout the provinces. We learned that our distance coordinator in Gurue is now overseeing seven groups where Christian principles for handling money are taught. That is great news. Mario is heading for a Special Training Seminar on micro-finance in Nampula from August 2 through August 8 offered jointly by the government and a Non-government aid agency. They are paying his travel expenses (airplane) to participate, which is a wonderful opportunity. These special young men, who are also leaders in one of our churches, are becoming quite the experts on the VSL program and I look forward to hearing Mario's report when he returns. You might remember that Samuel attended a different seminar a few months back and ended up knowing more about the subject than the teacher and actually did some teaching!
Pray for these precious young men and this program that has benefited so many. We are entering into the budget planning process for next fiscal year with no certain funding source and may have to make some difficult decisions regarding CMED. Pray with us.
Dave & Ann
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