In the world today, 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 per day. In some Central Asian countries, like Uzbekistan , the average salary is $15 a month.
JDA helps individuals and communities
raise their capacity, to effectively use their skills, resources and creativity to sustain and promote development on their own.
Despite that JDA in Uzbekistan was ordered to close October 2006, we are just now seeing the process come to an end. JDA attempted to fight the closure and substantial penalty through the Uzbek court system.
The second floor of the Sultan Ibrahim School was finished in August, 2006. Sultan Ibrahim is the fifth school that JDA has completed helping to bring education to more than 6000 children.
“I am so thankful that we
have a micro credit program
in our village. And I hope in
the second cycle I will spend
my profit for expanding my
business.”
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
