What We Do

 

EMPOWERMENT

 

Impact is empowering the impoverished by helping them build sustainable lives and communities, rather than providing them with social welfare. Our strategy is simple: empower the poor to help themselves. We are therefore committed to a fully engaged participation by those we are seeking to help.

 

In conclusion, our empowerment strategy equips the impoverished to gain both practical skill-sets and the spiritual foundation needed to cope with the challenging circumstances in which they live.

 

 

STRATEGY

 

Our strategy is to partner with like-minded Christian Churches, organizations, and individuals that have a heart to help the poor and needy. As the villagers become empowered, their neighbors take notice and are naturally inclined to participate. The villagers involvement not only perpetuates itself throughout the entire community, but encourages their neighboring communities as well. This neighbor to neighbor activity takes on a life of its own, thereby allowing us to reduce our presence and focus on other impoverished communities in the distant region.

 

 

KEY CELL GROUP FOCUS

"24 step" spiritual and practical course

 Access to information of appropriate technology

 Inclusion and participation

 Accountability

 Local organizational capacity

 Breaking the dependence mindset

 Bottom-up approach rather than top-down

 Exit strategy

 

 

 "Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away one's dignity and drives one into total despair." -a poor woman in Moldova