{"id":26228,"date":"2016-03-20T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=26228"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:08:45","slug":"helping-hardworking-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/economic-empowerment-news-stories\/helping-hardworking-parents","title":{"rendered":"Economic empowerment: Helping hardworking parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The best&nbsp;place to stay in Chongwe, <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a>, is Graka Lodge, a 31-bedroom hotel that boasts the town&rsquo;s only swimming pool. Dignitaries such as former President Levy Mwanawasa have rented the presidential suite.<\/p>\n<p>The owner, Grace Graka, employs a staff of 24. She also owns rental properties, the local hardware store, and a small market. She has given back to the community by funding a women&rsquo;s ward at the hospital and by building girls&rsquo; dormitories at the secondary school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Graka Lodge is God&rsquo;s lodge,&rdquo; says Grace. &ldquo;The wealth I have and I am still getting is not mine; God is merely using me as a conduit to pass it over to others who are in need.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26232\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26232 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Business loans helped Grace Graka create a successful business, and she decided to pay it forward.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100-850x566.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-195-2x1100.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Graka in her office in Chongwe, Zambia. (&copy;2015 World Vision\/photo by Eugene Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Given Grace&rsquo;s success, it&rsquo;s hard to believe that 21 years ago, she was in trouble. Her husband died, leaving her with nine children to care for. Then another blow: Grace had a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Still, she walked bravely into World Vision&rsquo;s VisionFund office in Chongwe and asked for a small loan to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/give\/chickens\">chickens<\/a> to sell for profit.<\/p>\n<p>As World Vision&rsquo;s microfinance institution, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VisionFund<\/a> dispenses small loans for people to begin or grow their own businesses &mdash; everything from sewing equipment and capital to start a bakery to the chickens Grace planned to buy. In many communities where World Vision runs sponsorship programs, you&rsquo;ll also find a VisionFund office.<\/p>\n<p>The VisionFund loan officers were reluctant. Grace was high risk: a single mother with nine children, no husband, no collateral, and no business experience. At first, they declined to give her a loan. But Grace was persistent, and she convinced them to take a chance on her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26233\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26233 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Business loans helped Grace Graka create a successful business, and she decided to pay it forward.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-661x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-661x400-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-661x400-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-661x400.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guesthouse Grace ran out of her home before Graka Lodge was built. (&copy;2015 World Vision\/photo by Eugene Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the first loan, she bought 100 chickens. She repaid the loan. Then she got a second loan, bought 200 chickens, and repaid that loan. Then she got a third loan, bought <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/give\/pig\">pigs<\/a>, and repaid that loan.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Grace started a guest house out of her home, calling it Aaron&rsquo;s Den in honor of her late husband. A steady stream of visitors paid to stay at Aaron&rsquo;s Den, but when they did, Grace and her children gave up their beds to guests and the family slept on the floor. She had a promising business, but no direction on how to grow it without her family paying a price.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My small children asked me, &lsquo;Mummy, is this the kind of business you are talking about, and is this how we are going to live?&rsquo;&rdquo; Grace remembers. &ldquo;I was perplexed. I looked at the child who asked the question, and I had no proper answer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The question nagged at her. &ldquo;That night I couldn&rsquo;t sleep,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I kept crying to God and praying to him to lift me and direct me&nbsp;to where he wanted me to be in this business so that I could have a proper answer to tell my children why I made them sleep on the floor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In time, their changed lives provided the answer. Grace&rsquo;s son Aaron graduated from the University of Zambia. Her daughter Lillian is getting her degree in China, where Grace travels to buy materials for the lodge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26234\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26234 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Business loans helped Grace Graka create a successful business, and she decided to pay it forward.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-609-2x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-609-2x400-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-609-2x400-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D485-0720-609-2x400.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace, right, with her daughter Lillian and Lillian&rsquo;s daughter.(&copy;2015 World Vision\/photo by Eugene Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though Grace&rsquo;s children weren&rsquo;t sponsored, the family lives in one of World Vision&rsquo;s development areas, so they receive many of the same benefits, like access to VisionFund microloans, that sponsored children and their families do. World Vision&rsquo;s holistic development model includes everyone in the community because what&rsquo;s good for people in Chongwe is good for the sponsored children living there.<\/p>\n<p>Grace remains humble. &ldquo;Recently, the Zambian government chose me from all lodge owners in Zambia to speak to people in [other] countries where they took me such as India, South Africa, and a few others,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;This is God&rsquo;s will to inspire people, especially women, through me, not that I am the best.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Next for Grace: a dream of taking in orphans. She never stops. Grace is truly amazing.<\/p>\n<h2>How World Vision empowers families<\/h2>\n<p>Economic empowerment isn&rsquo;t limited to small loans. World Vision&rsquo;s sponsorship-funded work also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equips farmers with&nbsp;skills and agricultural training to boost production and increase incomes.<\/li>\n<li>Helps&nbsp;smallholder farmers organize and connect to larger markets, in most cases doubling or tripling incomes.<\/li>\n<li>Establishes&nbsp;savings groups where members contribute small amounts over time, then can take out loans for everything from their children&rsquo;s university tuition to capital for a new business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When loans transformed a Grace Graka&#8217;s life, she transformed her community in 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