Our mission has always been to economically and spiritually empower people, families, and communities.

Enterprising Poor

Equipping the Poor

Local Partners

Strong Local Ties

Faith in Christ

Sharing the love

Learning

Support & Training

Our Founder

Rev Paris Reidhead

Our founder, Rev Paris Reidhead, believed that by the 1960’s there were substantial developments to make the overseas mission church self governing and self-propagating, but the efforts to help the local church become self-supporting were lacking. endPoverty was born from a vision to support the local church to become self-sustaining. It was clear that poverty and unemployment were and still are major limiting factors to transferring the capacity for the indigenous church to financially sustain itself and its vision of outreach. Thus, the journey to help believers establish or expand income producing enterprises began.

Since 1985 endPoverty has worked in 47 countries investing over $30m in the lives of the hardworking poor, empowering them to bring spiritual and economic transformation to their families and communities.

Micro businesses are a vehicle to fulfill our vision of seeing spiritually and economically transformed communities. The ministry of job creation benefits families and churches in developing countries, enabling them through work to support themselves, their pastors and outreach.

Our Mission

At endPoverty

endPoverty is a global, faith-based organization empowering hard-working men and women with economic and spiritual resources that unleash their capacities and liberate them from the entanglements of poverty.

Our Values

This is what keeps us going in the
fight to endPoverty

We focus on the enterprising poor

We believe that the smartest way to approach ending poverty is by equipping the poor to end poverty themselves. We have seen first-hand that by investing in the enterprising poor, we can unlock the potential to transform impoverished communities worldwide. To receive a loan, each individual must display initiative and desire to change their future through their current small business.

We work through local partners

Our partners are locally registered, non-governmental organizations in the developing world that have their own staff and boards of directors. These organizations are made up of people who speak the local language, understand the local culture, and have strong ties to the people they serve. We provide different levels and types of support; they implement the programs and are held accountable through reports and good faith cooperation.

We are driven by our faith and hope in Christ

endPoverty was founded on the Christian call to serve the poor and to love our neighbors as ourselves. We seek to minister to the needs of the whole person: physical, through economic opportunities; personal, through encouragement and mentoring; and spiritual, through moral and ethical counsel, love and guidance.

We focus on economic development

We believe handouts crush initiative and create dependency. While relief and aid programs meet immediate and often emergency needs, we believe that creating business and job opportunities provide long-term solutions to poverty through income generation.

We value a culture of learning and knowledge sharing.

We’ve shared in our partners’ challenges and successes, we’ve seen them grow and mature as faith-based microfinance and economic development experts. We build their capabilities by connecting our partners with other experts to share relevant knowledge to help them grow.

We do not discriminate.

Residents of chronically poor communities are eligible to participate in endPoverty’s programs regardless of religion, race, gender or creed.

We grow impact and strive towards sustainability.

Our partners help micro-entrepreneurs reach sustainability through lifting themselves and their families out of poverty. Similarly, we work with our partners to help them grow their long-term sustainability through strong leadership and healthy organization as they impact more communities.