We work collaboratively with families and schools to find solutions to poverty that are holistic and sustainable. These solutions are designed to let the schools, families, and children set their own pace for life improvement.
Knowledge Sharing
We collaborate with our partners, who do the same with families and schools, in a way that supports their ownership of the programs. This collaboration is based upon:
Relationship
Based upon trust, responsiveness and mutual benefit so that there can be an enduring collaboration between the partners, families and schools.
Ownership
By the families and schools to help each other and their children to be healthy, educated and able to earn an income.
Knowledge Sharing
So that families and schools can benefit from sharing and using best practices that improve everyone’s lives.
Sustainable
Reducing poverty starts with understanding people’s challenges and the root cause of those challenges. Once the root cause has been identified an appropriate solution is designed by combining processes, people, and parts.
Synergistic Processes
Solutions link together systematically across four lifecycle stages: Design & Build, Protect & Operate, Maintain & Repair, and Improve & Sustain.
Willing and Able People
Successful solutions require people to have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and will to succeed. Training and ongoing mentoring to support people are often important parts of sustainable solution design.
Fit for Purpose Parts
Some solutions require tools, equipment, and materials. It is important to consider which parts will be needed at each of the lifecycle stages, which parts provide lowest total cost of ownership, and whether those parts can be sustainably maintained.
Journey Out of Poverty
Sustainable solutions enable families and communities to move towards food, financial, and education self-reliance, by delivering predictable value and continuously improving quality.
Predictable
Create simple and repeatable processes for productive assets to deliver the expected benefits.
Delivers Value
Maximize return on time, energy, and money so that outputs are consistently greater than inputs.
Continuously Improves
Identify root causes of successes and challenges to make small improvements over time and achieve lowest total cost of ownership operating costs.