Recipe for a Thriving Community
The Recipe invests in human capital – the women and families seeking our help. This is our #1 priority.
A Tested, Replicable Service Model
Based on more than 30 years of experience living and working in the impoverished regions of northeastern Venezuela, the Turimiquire Foundation has developed our Recipe for a Thriving Community as a cohesive three-step blueprint for how an NGO can deliver maximum value in human services to its clients:
Step One: Stabilize the Family
- Family Planning Services
- Reproductive Health Education
Step Two: Focus on Education
- Teacher Development
- Student Scholarships
- Public Schools and Infrastructure
Step Three: Develop the Community
- Community Centers (Urban and Rural)
- Computers and Internet
- Public Services and Infrastructure
- Sustainable Livelihood
The Recipe is a tested and replicable service delivery model that offers a fast track blueprint for realizing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in the year 2000.
An organic outgrowth of years of experience responding to what low-income families have told us that they need, it brings together the three tiers of Foundation services based on the "internal clock" of these families — how and in what order they typically choose to utilize our services.
It invests in human capital first, offering the services that are most relevant to addressing the needs of our low-income clients, the poorest of the poor.
The Results:
- Fewer unplanned children
- Planned children are better spaced
- Young women have less children — and later
- Infant and maternal mortality significantly reduced
- Children, especially girls, are graduating from high school for the first time
- Students, especially girls graduating from high school, are pursuing higher education for the first time
- Computers and Internet available for the first time
- New rural kindergarten, school library, cafeteria, child care center
- Clean gravity-piped water, solar electricity for off-the-grid families
- More sustainable livelihood — the natural environment benefits right along with the human community
Please take a deeper look at the Recipe and see how it’s transforming lives and communities in remote rural Venezuela. The service delivery systems are in place. Our model is ready to expand, and we now need your support to do so.
Recipe for a Thriving Community Summary Brochure (English)
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Recipe for a Thriving Community: Towards the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (English)
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Recipe para una Comunidad Prospera: Rumbo las Metas de Desarrollo para el Milenio del ONU (Spanish)
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