Livelihood support and Family Sponsorship are very similar, only that Family Sponsorship generally supports an individual family or family member, whereas Livelihood Support works with groups or cooperatives. We provide mothers of the Children we work with financial and material support of grants loans, encouraging the groups themselves to form mirco-finance initiatives, taking responsibility for their savings and growth themselves, and we continue to support these groups, and individuals, in educating them on life skills, how to live responsibility, and how they can begin to help other people in similar positions.
To further livelihood support, AfCiC in collaboration with AfricaSMAT, has been engaging in training poor local farmers on water harvesting methods using affordable systems in which the water is used for micro-irrigation especially to support kitchen gardening. Together we have trained farmers on agroforestry and afforestation, conservation tillage and production of compost manure using residues, kitchen and market wastes. This in return empowers parents and guardians to economically raising their standards of living increasing their ability to support their dependents meeting their needs.