Recipe for a Thriving Community

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
  (especially for adolescents)

Step Two: Focus on Education

• Student Scholarships
• Teacher Development
• Public Schools and Infrastructure

Step Three: Develop the Community

• Computers and Internet
• Sustainable Livelihood
• Public Services and Infrastructure
• Community Centers (Urban and Rural)

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, and now continuing with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.

These Foundation programs are based on years of responding to what low-income families have told us that they need, and carefully observing how and in what order they choose to utilize our services.

We invest 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, emphasizing agriculture— 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 expanding, and we need your support to do so.

Recipe for a Thriving Community Summary Brochure (English)

Recipe for a Thriving Community: Towards the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (English)

Recipe para una Comunidad Prospera: Rumbo las Metas de Desarrollo para el Milenio del ONU (Spanish)

 

"When we are dreaming alone, we are only dreaming. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality" Dom Helder Camara

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