As we speak Tim Hartman and another Next Gen participant are at the Amahoro Gathering in Rwanda. Tim sent an encouraging story. Last year while in Uganda with Amahoro he met Mirielle who started and ran a clothing business.

Here’s the story: One of my personal highlights of the day was during the tea break when
Mirielle said that she wanted to talk to me. Essentially for the next
45 minutes she told me how she had used the $50 I gave her as an
investment after last year’s conference. Last year, I encouraged her
to use her business skills to encourage and empower other business
women. So when she went home, she found a friend of hers who had no
work and was just staying at home with her parents. Mirielle told her
that she would help her to start her own business selling clothes. So
Mirielle took her to Congo ($20 round trip for each of them, $40
total) and they stayed with a friend of Mirielle’s and they bought
some clothes and Mirielle instructed her how to run a business–such as
do not let anyone take clothes and tell you they will pay you later.
No cash, no clothes. So they went back to Burundi and the friend sold
the clothes, kept the profit–bought more clothes, paid Mirielle back,
and now is paying for herself to go to University and has a job too.
The whole time I am thinking to myself…really, really–our $50
actually made that big a difference! How remarkable and thanks be to
God!