ENCOURAGE. EQUIP. EMPOWER.

That's what Side by Side Alliance and its Allies have been doing for the past 6 ½ years!

And that's the reason we can say, with confidence, that SSA's approach of partnering with fewer communities overall, but engaging with them in a longer-term, deeper way is WORKING!

We're excited about 2026!

With your help in the new year, Side by Side Alliance will come alongside people living in vulnerable communities in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines with excellent training in sustainable livelihood skills! These skills make it possible for motivated participants to learn new trades, secure jobs, earn income, provide for their families, and renew their hope for a brighter future for themselves, their families, and all who will come after them!

With every participant, Side by Side Alliance seeks to encourage through the hope of Gospel, equip with practical livelihood trainings, and empower for a lifetime of freedom, purpose, and joy! To accomplish that, SSA builds meaningful, ongoing relationships with the families in our partner-communities, and we value our collaboration with existing Filipino training institutions. But the key partners in any successful project lies are the participants themselves!

The participants are the ones who will use their God-given gifts and abilities to learn new skills and make lasting changes in their lives!

First up in the New Year is the ARISE 2026 project!

ARISE 2026 will provide training in organic backyard gardening and fertilizer production for women from three partner-communities! After the instructional portion of the training, the women will move on to the practical portion. In this phase of ARISE 2026, participants will cultivate the soil in their gardens, nurture their seedlings, and plant their gardens! The women will be equipped to grow healthy produce that will provide good food for their families and open opportunities for them to earn additional income by selling a portion of their harvest to others in their communities!

Last year, Side by Side Alliance partnered with women from three communities in the first ARISE project, providing expert instruction and hands-on experience related to organic gardening. With a 96% completion rate for the training, these highly motivated participants learned to grow nutritious vegetables in their own yards - and they've continued to feed their families with delicious, fresh produce ever since!!

Many of the ARISE participants also earned additional income for their households as they began selling some of their produce to others in their communities. Everyone has been impressed with the tenacity and hard work of the first group of ARISE women!

With the help of SSA's compassionate donors, ARISE 2026 will also be a huge success, equipping women with skills that will help them feed their families, decrease their food insecurity, and give them hope for brighter futures! And these skills will empower the women for a lifetime!

Next up: WIRED for Success!

Also in 2026, Side by Side Alliance and its Allies will partner with residents from three communities and provide training in electrical installation & maintenance (EIM) through a project called WIRED for Success! With classroom instruction and hands-on practice, the participants will learn the skills of EIM and be prepared to sit for the national certification exam at the conclusion of the training. After obtaining their national certification in EIM, the participants of the WIRED for Success project will be ready for employment with a local contractor as a skilled worker. They will also be able to do work on their own in their communities.

Through your faithful prayers and generous financial support, projects like ARISE 2026 and WIRED for Success will be life-changing for families in SSA's partner-communities! To see men and women learn new skills they can use for the rest of their lives is inspiring! As they use their gifts and abilities to learn - and then work hard using those skills - they become economically productive and gain true freedom over their poverty!

Let's keep working together for good!

THANK YOU for being a part of this good work and for coming alongside families living in vulnerable places with HELP through sustainable livelihood trainings and HOPE through the power of the Gospel!

ENCOURAGE. EQUIP. EMPOWER.

Side by Side Alliance: Encourage. Equip. Empower.

Overcoming poverty, one community at a time!

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