Old Order Amish Helping Program

During the year ended july 31, the Program extend new loans to young/needy Amish persons, thereby allowing them to acquire farms or other agricultural financing needs to become established within the Old Order Amish community. ------ the Program accepts investments from members of the Amish community. The Program returned an investment on all invested dollars. The interest earned could be received in check or added into the original investment balance at the direction of the investor. The investments are all due on demand within 60 days of request. ----- the Program uses these investment funds to assist new Amish agricultural business activities as defined above. The loan agreements written are secured by the underlying real estate and are amortized over a 20 year repayment plan with a 10 year balloon. ----- all loans provided in support of new agricultural activities are approved by the independent board of directors. ----- members of the board of directors and their families are permitted to invest in the organization or receive loans from the organization consistent with the same terms of all recipients of the Program.