We’re transforming lives and empowering communities.
A focus on tangible growth and efficiency:
Our mission is to quantifiably improve the lives of the marginalized rural and urban barrio populations of northeastern Venezuela. We do this by offering comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services, medical assistance, humanitarian aid, and rural services including literacy education and sustainable livelihood.
The bottom line? We help our clients emerge from centuries-long cycles of poverty using the tools and offering the assistance that they themselves ask for.
A replicable service model:
We are demonstrating the win-win synergies of an integrated, multi-disciplinary service model – a model that is now proven, embraced by our clients, and replicable. We think this model has a role on the global Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) stage. It starts with offering family planning services to under-served women and families, helping them to control their fertility with reproductive health programs that can free them from what can become a reproductive treadmill. We then build upon these foundational services with additional humanitarian support, education and development – our Recipe for a Thriving Community.
Our “Recipe” is an integrated approach to empowering women, families, and marginal communities:
- Low-income families with reliable access to family planning have a better chance of subsisting on limited resources, resulting in healthier children and mothers – and a significantly higher quality-of-life.
- This helps to reduce pressure on Venezuela’s beleaguered public health care systems.
- And reduces demographic pressures on the country’s institutions and besieged socio-economics.
- This also frees and empowers women to focus on educating themselves and their children and building their communities.
- As families and communities lift themselves out of survival mode, they can incorporate livelihood and sustainable agricultural alternatives which reduce deforestation and erosion for a more sustainable habitat.
- This focus on sustainability can improve vital access to clean water and utilities, amplifying the local food base and enhancing nutrition.
- Stable populations can thrive sustainably on a fixed land base without stressing their environment, lessening the impact on climate change.
Working on all these fronts together demonstrably transforms lives in a replicable service model with enormous upside and applicability across the less-developed world.
“When we dream alone, it is only a dream.
When we dream with others, it is the beginning of reality.”
Dom Camera Helder
OUR RECIPE
FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
The first and crucial step towards empowering women and families is to offer them the means to control their own fertility.
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND HUMANITARIAN AID
Venezuela is in crisis: its lower income people are tragically vulnerable to the lack of public services and widespread scarcity of even common medicines.
EDUCATION
Once families gain control of their fertility and core healthcare, they can concentrate on giving their children the best possible future through schooling.
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD
Our rural development and eco-agriculture initiatives serve a dual purpose – to preserve local ecosystems and promote self-employment for rural populations. Our Durian Project is one such initiative.
