Path 2
We share practices and funding with rural disadvantaged families in order to help them access water, nourish soil, grow vegetables, generate income, improve homes, and enhance their children’s education.
Access Water
Better Lives collaborates with local partners to help ensure communities have access to clean and affordable water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and irrigation.
Water access solutions follow a variety of designs depending on a community’s current water sources, need, and capacity. Our local partners help their communities develop the skills, infrastructure, and processes to maintain a sustainable water delivery system.
This work is made possible by donations for the tools, materials and services.
Nourish Soil
We collaborate with local partners to help communities nourish their soil to grow organic food and provide families with sustainable, nutritious, chemical-free food. Nourishing the soil maximizes the soil’s productivity while minimizing the work to care for soil and plants.
This is done by using best practices including building and maintaining raised garden beds, applying compost and rice hull charcoal, protecting beds from extreme weather, and planting them in a way that maintains the soil’s fertility.
Our local partners help families build and maintain garden beds by providing tools, materials, and services like training, building assistance, and on-going mentoring.
This work is made possible by donations for the tools, materials and services.
Strengthen Health
We collaborate with local partners to help families grow vegetables to support health and earn additional income from selling surplus vegetables. Organic nourishment strengthens children’s immune systems and health, enabling them to attend more school and be more attentive in class because they are not distracted by hunger pains.
This is done by building organic vegetable gardens. Organic vegetable gardens are built using Food Always In The Home (FAITH) principles.
Our local partners help families build and maintain gardens by providing tools, materials, and services that include training, building assistance and on-going mentoring for the families.
This work is made possible by donations for the tools, materials and services.
Earn Income
We collaborate with local partners to help families generate income so parents can afford normal living, medical and education expenses while raising their children in a safe and healthy home with light to read at night.
This is done through training and ongoing mentoring for business and technical skills, coupled with micro-loans.
Our local partners train and mentor families so that they can qualify for micro-loans for agriculture, livestock and small business.
This work is made possible by donations for services and loans for business expenses.
Improve Home
Families with sufficient regular income can invest in home improvements so that families can live in a safe, healthy environment that has light for reading and studying at night.
We provide assistance with savings and micro-loans that fund home improvements from kitchen utensils to home additions and new home building that use local building techniques.
Local partners collaborate with families to facilitate savings clubs and qualify the families for home improvement micro-loans.
This work is made possible by loans for home improvement expenses.
Enhance Education
We collaborate with local partners and schools to improve the teaching environment by assisting with provision of clean water, toilets, hand wash basins, kitchens, vegetable gardens, and breakfast.
This is accomplished by providing design assistance and donations that fund facilities construction and nutritious breakfast mix.
Our local partners manage the projects, source the materials and contract with local people to build the facilities and serve the breakfasts.
This works is made possible by donations for tools, materials, and services.