US Spending $900,000 to Help Women Start Businesses

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U.S. Spending $900,000 to Help Women Start Businesses-

-in Peru and El Salvador

By Pete Winn

November 5, 2012

Secretary of State Hillarious Clinton (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. is spending $900,000 to help women start businesses and create jobs--in Peru and El Salvador.

Secretary of State Hillarious Clinton announced the new Women's Entrepreneurship Trust Fund last month on visit to the Peruvian capital of Lima.

“The United States is making an initial contribution of $900,000 to launch pilot programs here in Peru and in El Salvador,” Clinton said on October 16.

“But we need more partners and more contributors to the trust fund, so I’d like to invite other governments and businesses to contribute.”

The money, according to Clinton, will be used to train rural women in Peru and in El Salvador for jobs as entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Clinton said the U.S. and Peru were working together as partners to support women in rural areas who “are replacing thousands of hectares of illegal coca fields with profitable crops, like chocolate and coffee and palm oil.”

Approximately $500,000 of the money will go to Peru. The program will go far beyond job training, Clinton said.

“With $500,000 in initial funding, we’ll focus on helping Peruvian women advocate for their own needs, mobilize broad national support for issues affecting them, particularly rural women.

“We want to make sure they know who to contact if healthcare workers in rural clinics do not have proper training or if schools lack basic supplies. With more advocacy, openness, and accountability, women and their government can work together to improve the lives of Peruvians.”

The money is part of the U.S.’s Women’s Leadership Initiative, which Clinton announced earlier this year.

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[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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(We should round up a boat load of Gringas,

go down there,

take the money,

and bring it back home. )

Look....

Latin women have always been the more responsible gender.

(we know, we ARE one)

The women of the countryside will always farm, garden, take it to market & sell it,

make craft items to sell, go out & get jobs, too. Hard workers.

The only time this natural cycle gets interrupted is when men get involved.

They take money from women, drink it up, waste it, buy guns and machetes

with which to harm one-another.

The (male) priests take it away from the women, too, "for the church"...

Lived there, saw it, know it's true.

It will happen with this money, too.

Gringos continue to throw good money after bad at these countries...

Once, USAID took prized Iowa pigs to a 'Central American' country.

The folks cooked them and served them at the big photo-op party

the U.S. delegation threw for itself.

They only kept 1 sow for breeding..... line died out.

So did the efforts of the well-meaning Gringos... again.

Equally well-meaning Peace Corps volunteers have been hard at it forever with few

lasting results.

When the locals wreck what they've done, either through local war,

or NEGLECT of the systems implemented, more volunteers go back in -- again.

Just like the well-meaning libs have done here, the end result is always dependency.

If all the efforts THEY'VE put forth over all these years had really had all that much of an effect,

more 3rd-world countries would be better for it - they are not. It's a frustrating fact.

Leave them alone.

Let them make their own way - in their own way.

If they want it badly enough, they should demand it of their own governments.

All the money we give them usually ends up in the hands of some guys in the government anyway.

(personally witnessed THAT, too...)

Take care of business here at home 1st.

If all our 'programs' were working so well overseas,

nobody from there would keep coming here.

We give those countries trillions.

They never re-pay the interest on those loans, let alone the loans themselves.

[see: MEXICO]

Had we kept it in-country, we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in now.

They can learn about Democracy by following our example,

we don't have to continue to throw money (and weapons) at the problems they have.

Has never worked -- anywhere, at any time.

Believe us or not -- just some food for thought.

[kox]

Sgt has seen what I have seen... good on the spot article. and very true.

[FXStockpiling]

What a JOKE!

Just another reason to vote Republican. My Grandfather explained loaning or giving money when I was a child, he said "Always have two pockets, one for you and one for everyone else. If their pocket is empty, then you have nothing for them."

The USA is down to one pocket right now, and we have people like this redistributing the last bit of wealth we have to anyone that has nothing to do with US!

If you or I needed $5 in order to save our businesses they would spend $10 on a song and dance to tell US how they are to broke to help...

Today is a great day for taking out the trash!