Holistic Community Development
About Holistic Community Development
Resurrection supports indigenous organizations that focus on holistic community development that is led by local community leaders. These organizations have gone through a full multi-year vetting process where we:
- Create a foundation of trust through listening and learning
- Share ideas and beliefs on how sustainable development is achieved ensuring our values are aligned
- Visit the organization to see the ways they are engaged in a community and how they are achieving transformative change
Once a foundation of trust is established and we find our organizations are aligned we continue:
- Monthly or quarterly conversations to discuss goals, plans, projects, and results
- Receive quarterly financial tracking
- Receiving celebration reports quarterly or at the end of a project
- Annual follow-up visits to ensure clear communication, check the status of projects, and learn how we can be better partners
Malawi
Opulence Malawi leverages the expertise and creative minds of local leaders to address community poverty holistically through education, health, economic empowerment, agriculture/food security and disaster response to support comprehensive community development initiatives. They begin by identifying and listening to community leaders who determine the resources already endowed in a community as well as the gaps needed to bring about sustainable, long-lasting development.
Haiti
Fondation Voix des Communautés de Base (Grassroot Community Voices) has a mission to address the health needs in a community, create social protection, build the capacity of local leaders, offer crisis response, create youth empowerment, and help families become economically secure through their mutual solidarity village savings and loan program. To carry out its mission, VCB relies on a strong cohesion of actions among communities, local authorities, local and international humanitarian actors.
Uganda
Uganda Counseling and Support Services’ mission is to improve the quality of life and spread God’s love to people in communities by providing social services, counseling, and spiritual development – one community at a time. They do this through education (preschool – university), health (medical clinics, counseling, agriculture & clean water), economic empowerment (village savings and loan groups as well as vocational training), and spiritual (growing churches and small groups).
Community Development International, Inc.
In an effort to expand the community development activities taking place in these three countries, Resurrection is partnering with Community Development International (CDI). If you have a passion to help the most vulnerable populations around the world transform their communities, you can donate through CDI.
Through your donation, you can support:
- Equipping Local Leaders
- Climate-resilient Agriculture (permaculture, terra preta, compost toilets, tree nurseries) to Address Food Insecurity and Deforestation
- Solar lights for Education
- Medical Clinics & Preventative Education
- Schools
- Village Savings & Loans/Mutual Solidarity groups
- Counseling
- Clean Water
- WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) Education
