Times are tough for people in the USA. So many people jobless, or under-employed. Much less extra income — maybe no extra income. The media and business leaders are talking about a recovery that’s happening, but most of us are NOT seeing it. Scary! I really<\/i> understand (wow, do I ever understand…).<\/p>\n
But I hope you will consider donating just $15<\/a> (just $15!) to one man’s effort to start a cleaning company in Kabul, Afghanistan. <\/b><\/p>\n I’ve been volunteering with BPEACE<\/a> for a while now, and my most recent effort was to help mentor a Kabul man — Sherzai<\/a> — in starting a cleaning company in Afghanistan. Working online with a cleaning company in St. Louis, Missouri, I prepared a detailed guide to help Sherzai know all that starting a cleaning company would entail, what “green cleaning” is and if it was realistic for him to pursue such with his company, how to budget for his start up, etc. A colleague in Afghanistan then donated her precious time to translate our materials into his native language (Dari).<\/p>\n A cleaning company in Afghanistan might not sound that vital or exciting, but it is hugely important<\/b>. Homes and work places must be clean in order to keep people healthy and to attract foreign investments. Sherzai’s effort has the potential to employ hundreds of people and set a standard that could encourage others.<\/p>\n Please consider donating just $15 to Sherzai’s effort<\/a> (it makes me sad to see him at the bottom of the leader board). Or donate to one of the other Afghan or Rwandan entrepreneurs<\/a> wanting to start or expand a business in their home countries (each job has the potential to employ several dozen, even hundreds, of people). Or donate to BPEACE<\/a> in general, to help all the entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Times are tough for people in the USA. So many people jobless, or under-employed. Much less extra income — maybe no extra income. The media and business leaders are talking about a recovery that’s happening, but most of us are NOT seeing it. Scary! I really understand (wow, do I ever understand…). But I hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}