— SPECIAL UPDATE —
New challenges call for new solutions.
Everything is different right now. That's true for you, for me, and especially for TOLI clients in poor communities.
Businesses are closed, sales have dried up, and futures are suddenly unclear. People are worried for their family's health and well-being. Thankfully, TOLI has highly effective local ministry partners who are already on the ground, serving vulnerable families in these difficult times. And together, right now, we're deploying resources in new ways to meet the unique needs of TOLI clients and their communities. Here's how:
1. We're hiring current TOLI clients to sew FACE MASKS. This week we began hiring existing TOLI clients who are seamstresses to produce fabric face masks, providing them with much-needed income while helping communities stop the spread of coronavirus. Masks will be delivered by our local partners along with important health safety guidance.
Rose in Kenya has already begun sewing face masks to be distributed in TOLI communities. The Face Mask Project is part of TOLI's plan to help keep clients employed through this crisis while doing what we can to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
2. We're providing EMERGENCY RELIEF. We unrestricted a portion of program funds at every site to meet immediate critical needs of clients and their families who are suffering due to this crisis, including:
providing direct food support
deferment or forgiveness of upcoming loan payments
replacement of perishable inventory
assistance with medical payments for COVID-related illness
3. We're adapting CLIENT CARE. Our field staffers are checking in more frequently with clients remotely via cell phone. They're giving extra spiritual support, adaptive business coaching, and health safety education.
4. We're CONNECTING THE TOLI FAMILY... and that includes YOU. Starting with next week's TOLI Tuesday Prayer Gathering, we will be hosting a series of virtual prayer times, info sessions, Q&As, and more. Technology gives us the opportunity to be together, while apart — what a gift!
And finally, please know we are praying for you and your families, lifting you up to our gracious God, who loves us so much he sent his own son Jesus to die for us, to rescue us from this present darkness — and for life eternal. And that changes everything.
With gratitude and joy,
Abigail McConnell
Executive Director
TOLI TUESDAY
PRAYER GATHERING on ZOOM
— SPECIAL GUEST —
TOLI Social Worker Lucy Njeri will join us live from KENYA
Tuesday April 14, 12-1pm Live Via Zoom
To join, email Megan Nilsen to receive your Zoom passcode.
Stay tuned to learn how YOU can help stand in the gap for those who need it most right now. Now more than ever, we are so grateful for your partnership.
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