Livelihood provides families with stability, empowerment, and well-being.

When people are given the tools, skills, and resources they need to earn a living, they are able to provide basic needs as well as sustain long-term stability for their communities and families.

What We Do

  • Develop agriculture and small animal projects such as coffee farming, beekeeping, chicken rearing, plant husbandry, and fishing
  • Establish income-generation training workshops
  • Support vocational training programs through scholarships and distribution of tools and supplies

Our Impact

  • Provided beekeeping and coffee farming inputs to beneficiaries in Honduras
  • Supported the facilitation of women's empowerment workshops
  • Developed a chicken farm for an orphanage in Haiti
  • Provided a barbering chair and tools for a vocational barbering program
  • Distributed sewing machines and sewing supplies to provide opportunity for small business development
  • Provided support for vocational training programs in landscaping, barbering, carpentry, and sewing

Our Livelihood Goal

By the end of 2025, we aim to enroll 90 women in skills training programs – 40 this year and 50 in 2025.

Livelihood Facts

60% of Hondurans live on less than $2 per day.

The poverty rate in the Bahamas currently sits at 12.5%, with women representing more than half of those impoverished.

Many Jamaicans who may have recently escaped poverty could be forced back below the poverty line due to COVID-19 and the negative impacts it had on the economy, resulting in an increase in poverty by over 4%.

60% of Haitians live below the national poverty line, and more than 24% live in extreme poverty.