EndPoverty.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the working poor to free themselves from poverty. Through our partnerships with local Christian microfinance institutions all over the developing world, we provide small loans, business training, mentorship and microenterprise services to help people living in poverty establish their own businesses. By supporting our clients, you enable them to provide for their families with dignity and send their children to school.

2. “this vision of economic freedom -- the
freedom to work, to create and produce”
Ronald Reagan

3. endPoverty.org

9. endPoverty.org
Loans that lift up the poor

11. What is our world today?

12. What is our world today?

13. What is our world today?

14. What is our world today?
Half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day
50%

15. What is our world today?

16. What is our world today?
More than 2 billion don’t have clean water or basic sanitation
34%

17. What is our world today?

18. What is our world today?
One quarter of humanity lives without electricity
25%

19. What is our world today?

20. What is our world today?
A billion people are unable to read a book or sign their names
17%

22. Before this presentation is
over, four busloads of
kids will die...

25. What can we do about it?

26. Handouts,
Government Aid,
Temporary Relief Programs

29. The answer:
Microenterprise Development

30. The answer:
Microenterprise Development
Helping others help themselves

31. The answer:
Microenterprise Development
Helping others help themselves
Loans that lift up the poor

32. The answer:
Microenterprise Development
Helping others help themselves
Loans that lift up the poor
An investment for permanent change

33. How Microenterprise Development works

34. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks

35. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty

36. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world

37. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms

38. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines

39. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community

40. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families

41. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families
Fewer kids die, more enrolled in school

42. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families
Fewer kids die, more enrolled in school
Loans repaid and disbursed again and again

43. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families
Fewer kids die, more enrolled in school
Loans repaid and disbursed again and again
Businesses thrive, community starts to prosper

44. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families
Fewer kids die, more enrolled in school
Loans repaid and disbursed again and again
Businesses thrive, community starts to prosper
Entire country’s economy improves

45. How Microenterprise Development works
You forgo your morning Starbucks for 2 weeks
Give that money to endPoverty
We send to our partner programs all over the world
They provide loans to groups of poor moms
The moms buy sewing machines
Earn income offering tailoring services to the community
Better food, housing, clothing and health care for their families
Fewer kids die, more enrolled in school
Loans repaid and disbursed again and again
Businesses thrive, community starts to prosper
Entire country’s economy improves
Your change changes the world

46. endPoverty’s Unique Approach

47. endPoverty’s Unique Approach
Dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor (instead of
offering banking to the lower middle class)

48. endPoverty’s Unique Approach
Dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor (instead of
offering banking to the lower middle class)
Partner-based, locally-led solution rather than a Western/
U.S.-centric solution (building indigenous leadership)

49. endPoverty’s Unique Approach
Dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor (instead of
offering banking to the lower middle class)
Partner-based, locally-led solution rather than a Western/
U.S.-centric solution (building indigenous leadership)
Lean, efficient and nimble program model ($100 donated
today = rickshaw for poor African in a few weeks)

50. endPoverty’s Unique Approach
Dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor (instead of
offering banking to the lower middle class)
Partner-based, locally-led solution rather than a Western/
U.S.-centric solution (building indigenous leadership)
Lean, efficient and nimble program model ($100 donated
today = rickshaw for poor African in a few weeks)
Holistic, spiritual growth emphasis (“material prosperity
without spiritual growth is empty”)

51. endPoverty’s Unique Approach
Dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor (instead of
offering banking to the lower middle class)
Partner-based, locally-led solution rather than a Western/
U.S.-centric solution (building indigenous leadership)
Lean, efficient and nimble program model ($100 donated
today = rickshaw for poor African in a few weeks)
Holistic, spiritual growth emphasis (“material prosperity
without spiritual growth is empty”)
Microfinance as a platform (instead of just a product)

52. Microfinance as a platform

53. Microfinance as a platform
HIV/AIDS outreach in Africa along with
microenterprise development program

54. Microfinance as a platform
HIV/AIDS outreach in Africa along with
microenterprise development program
Organic farming in Mexico, sustainable businesses
in Latin America

55. Microfinance as a platform
HIV/AIDS outreach in Africa along with
microenterprise development program
Organic farming in Mexico, sustainable businesses
in Latin America
Reconciliation and peace in Philippines among the
Muslim population in Mindanao

56. Microfinance as a platform
HIV/AIDS outreach in Africa along with
microenterprise development program
Organic farming in Mexico, sustainable businesses
in Latin America
Reconciliation and peace in Philippines among the
Muslim population in Mindanao
Orphanages and hospitals in India and Bangladesh

57. Client Stories

58. Client Stories
Grandma “Jaja” Maria in Uganda
Six of her seven adult children have died from AIDS,
armed conflict, Amin administration purges
Caring for 25+ grandchildren, the majority of whom
have no parents
Used an initial $70 grant from endPoverty to start a
small restaurant in her community, Ttuba
Re-invested her profits and additional loans from
endPoverty in land and building materials
Now owns two brick-walled houses, one of which
she rents as an additional source of income
Able to provide nutritious meals and housing for her
family and community and send every one of her
grandchildren to school!

59. Client Stories

60. Client Stories
Tania in Bangladesh
Father passed when she was 10 and shortly after she
was forced into a loveless marriage with a much older
man who had been married five times before.
Frequently cheated on and eventually abandoned by her
husband despite having a son and daughter together
Reduced to begging on the streets and at her darkest
time, considered prostitution or selling her daughter in
order to survive.
Used an initial $120 loan to purchase a mold to make
concrete latrine bases and diligently began working for
herself
Operates a thriving business today, owns a small plot of
land with a new house, happily remarried with a third
child.

61. Why Help?

62. Why Help?
Your generosity today will empower families and
transform lives more than any time in recent history

63. Why Help?
Your generosity today will empower families and
transform lives more than any time in recent history
$100 gift = one new rickshaw or sewing machine in
India every year

64. Why Help?
Your generosity today will empower families and
transform lives more than any time in recent history
$100 gift = one new rickshaw or sewing machine in
India every year
You are supporting heroes in the developing world

65. Why Help?
Your generosity today will empower families and
transform lives more than any time in recent history
$100 gift = one new rickshaw or sewing machine in
India every year
You are supporting heroes in the developing world
It’s the gift that keeps on giving

66. Why Help?
Your generosity today will empower families and
transform lives more than any time in recent history
$100 gift = one new rickshaw or sewing machine in
India every year
You are supporting heroes in the developing world
It’s the gift that keeps on giving
This is the right thing to do

68. endPoverty.org
Loans that lift up the poor