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2025 Annual Report
What is progress? For folks like Maricide, a single mother in Haiti, progress means the ability to save ...
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2024 Annual Report
It is a privilege to join in God’s work of enabling families across the globe to move from ...
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September Newsletter 2024
Impact: More Than Just Numbers By Verlin Torkelson, East Africa Regional Director We often talk about impact. It's ...
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June Newsletter 2024
Gardening and Savings Groups by Marilyn Kuepfer - Director's wife Here in Detroit, MI, we are beginning to ...
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A Journey of Faith and Financial Literacy in East Africa
A Journey of Faith and Financial Literacy in East Africa By Thomas Amata, Director of Operations for East ...
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June 2023 Newsletter
Flying over Mexico City Progress in Mexico Early one Saturday morning at the end of April, I traveled ...
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Chihuahua, Mexico Program Launch
The Chihuahua, Mexico program launch is just around the corner! At the end of May, we are planning ...
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March 2023 Newsletter
Photo: Sam poses with his mother Lorna A Story Of Stewardship Some years ago when my family I ...
Read More Expansion on the Horizon!
We are planning to expand the savings programs in order to help more people in developing countries. In ...
Read More Administrative Transition
In January of 2022, we began an administrative transition where Merle Burkholder began training Joe Kuepfer as the ...
Read More Torkelson Family arrives in Kenya
In the beginning of May, the Verlin and Bethany Torkelson family settled into Nakuru, Kenya. Verlin now serves ...
Read More First Group in Colombia
As of mid-May, one of our facilitators was able to get the first group started in our new ...
Read More Open Hands Newsletter Dec 2021
Read the Open Hands newsletter from December 2021. Open Hands Newsletter December 2021
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