Equips subsistence farmers with the skills and tools to develop a cash crop.
Provides unemployed youth with marketable skills and job placement.
Trains disabled persons with computer business skills.
HOW WE DO IT
CONNECTING
* A new host community is selected in a region currently underserved by mainstream international development programs.
* Local and international staff partner with a university that is equipped to provide technical support to agricultural, technological, and vocational initiatives.
* Fifteen to twenty promising student leaders are chosen through extensive onsite screening interviews.
GROWING
* Teaching staff conduct six weeks of intensive hands-on leadership training with an emphasis on entrepreneurial and project management skills.
* Students work with local business and community leaders to identify root causes of underdevelopment.
* Students design solutions that maximize existing community resources in a sustainable manner.
BUILDING
* Each student initiative supports independent local leadership while forging lasting connections within the benefited community.
* Individual project beneficiaries fill voids in the local economy while dramatically improving their families' health, educational prospects and financial stability.
* Projects develop independent profit-generating businesses that serve as models for growth in surrounding communities.
ABOUT US
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WHAT WE DO
We create honest, self-reliant leaders equipped to renew their communities from the
ground up.
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HOW WE DO IT
Our students learn vital leadership skills while designing & implementing locally sustainable development projects.
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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
We focus exclusively on outcomes that will continue growing and building with or without our continued presence and support.
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WHO WE ARE
We are diverse, independent leaders dedicated to creating lasting change.
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SUCCESS
Our methods work: the stories, faces and numbers to prove it.
