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Mosaic partners with Five Talents to fight poverty, create jobs, and transforms live by empowering the poor in developing countries by using innovative savings and microcredit programs, business training, and spiritual development. As a viable tool to help the poor, micro-credit is one of the few concepts that keeps funding in circulation, rather than using it up. As loans are repaid with interest, the money goes back out again and again.

Mosaic supports Five Talents' innovative microcredit program in the village of Lietnhom in southern Sudan, an area that is transitioning from the ravages of more than 20 years of war. Almost three years after a peace agreement, hundreds of thousands are still internally displaced and others who have found a home are looking to rebuild their shattered lives.

Working with a consortium of partners including the Episcopal Church of Sudan, the goal is to support and strengthen the village banking project in Wau Diocese, which was started in September 2005, and currently has 270 members. This is one of the first projects of this type in southern Sudan.

Five Talents

"To designate a hell is not, of course, to tell us anything about how to extract people from that hell, how to moderate hell's flames. Still, it seems a good in itself to acknowledge, to have enlarged, one's sense of how much suffering caused by human wickedness there is in the world we share with others. Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood. No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia." (Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114) Susan Sontag