Cause for Hope seeks to establish employment opportunities that have inexpensive start-up and maintenance costs. The foundation concentrates on building locally manufactured products for export businesses. Export businesses maximize job creation, and use US dollars to purchase local goods, thus helping to expand the local economy and individual self-reliance.
Success Stories
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Name: Atanael Martínez
La Verde, Retalhuleu, Guatemala.
Help received: The Martinez Family enrolled in the Self-Employment Workshop, the 5 steps of success through mentoring, and received a microcredit loan from CFH.
Temporal Impact: He and his family have implemented the knowledge acquired through these programs, and their business has grown from $182 monthly profit to over $730 monthly profit.
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Name: Jorge Torres
Salcajá, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala.
Help received: Cause For Hope trained Jorge in Self-Employment business skill and the 5 steps of successful business training. Thanks to the two loans and the knowledge received from the different workshops he has attended, he did not go out of business in this terrible economy.
Temporal Impact: He used to make an average of $440 a month and had no savings. Now he is making over $565 a month and has been able to save $300.
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Name: Oscar O. Grandes
Iberia, Choluteca - Honduras
Help received: Oscar received the Self-Employment Training and mentoring on different options of income, and a microcredit.
Temporal Impact: He was making $1,800 a year with his small business of selling honey. He has now expanded his beekeeping business and takes care of over 50 beehives. Oscar anticipates growing his beehives to over 100 in the next year. He has been blessed with a current income of $5,568 a year.
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Name: Grandway
Honduras, Choluteca
Help received: Cause for Hope helped facilitate the starting of Grandway Honduras. Grandway Honduras is a division of Grandway, USA which is owned and operated by Dale Gledhill, who has served on CFH's Board of Directors.
Temporal Impact: The factory near Choluteca has greatly improved the lives of its more than 75 employees and their families. They are grateful for their clean, safe, and congenial work environment, and for steady and consistent employment. The company produces a variety of quality drawer organizer products from plantation-grown mahogany. The final products are shipped to the United States and sold through major retail outlets including Williams-Sonoma, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Hold Everything. |
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Name: Alejandro Santizo Macario
City: Mazatenango, Guatemala
Help Received:
He started a used clothing business with a small amount of clothes, which he bought with his savings 2 years ago.
He received a micro loan to improve his business and buy more clothes. He learned how to be industrious, the importance of having a business plan, savings, and self-reliance.
Temporal Impact:
He used to make $233 a month and had $65 savings. Now he makes $477 a month and has $155 in savings.
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