Teaching People to 'Fish'

Fall 2009
Quiet Spaces Vol. 15
By Kelli Ross

By teaching basic business skills before providing loan capital, Five Talents ensures that the entrepreneurs and communities benefit now and in the future. It is a very practical and sound approach to fighting poverty. Five Talents President and CEO, Craig Cole, explains how it is not a handout programme: ‘We are teaching the poor that they have value and the power to transform their lives and the lives of their families.’