CLIMB Program is a nine-week business training course for individuals who want to start a small business.  Creating Livelihoods for Individuals through Micro Business can assist interested persons in the following: forming business out of hobbies or previously informal activities; transforming home-based business into growing, viable enterprises ro self-employment; helping existing business expand and grow to gain years of operating and credit history that allow them to enter the formal credit sector. 

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

• Personal financial readiness
• Creating a business plan
• Market research
• The cost of doing business
• Finding customers

The course fee is $75.00 with payment plans available.  Once training is completed, participants apply directly to their Peer-Lending Group for loans.  Loan determinations are based on the group's opinion of the viability of the business proposal as well as on the character and commitment displayed by the prospective borrower.