SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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I am starting an NGO and this is our

Mission:


1. To empower impoverished communities by transforming their challenges into opportunities. We facilitate communities to envision a better future, one with clean water, restored ecosystems, sustainable businesses and a peaceful coexistence with their neighbors and the surrounding wildlife. Our core activity is coordinating the resources and traditional wisdom of the community with financial, intellectual and human capital from external sources to materialize the community's shared vision of a better future.

2. To simultaneously restore ecosystems and alleviate poverty through the establishment of sustainable businesses based on creating value from the restored ecosystems.

Societies have formed systems of power and wealth generation based on the extraction of natural resources and the exploitation of human bodies and minds. Because of this, we can observe, environmental, social and economic injustice around the world. These three exist as a trio. Wherever you find one, the other two are nearby. For this reason, to truly help an impoverished community, all three of these issues must be addressed. One of the great failures of charity and aid is that they do not create a long-term systemic plan to replace this destructive system with a functional one. Therefore, once the river of aid ceases to flow, the community soon falls back in to poverty and despair. Our organization takes a different approach. We shift from extraction, exploitation and competition to restoration, stewardship, collaboration and peaceful coexistence.

The first step in the process is getting to know the community. We need to understand their culture, how they make decisions, the natural resources they have available, their strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities. Once these factors are understood, we facilitate community meetings where a vision of a better future is designed. All choices are made by the community. When appropriate, we share ideas about resources we can bring to the cause. In the end, there must be buy-in and commitment from the community to work long and hard to attain the future they collectively designed.

This mission addresses the millennium development goals and majorly three goals of sustainable development; economic growth, social development and sustainability of environment. I think it is a better turn to help developing countries to catch up in development and alleviate poverty.
It is a fact that most communities in developing countries when given aid they still fall back to poverty, and this is mainly because they always look up to aid for everything in life instead of taking responsibility and develop in life. I don't blame them, this is because of ignorance. They lack appropriate knowledge to manage finances and make something out of little capital they are given. This is one of the approach am thinking of now: If my NGO will help these community individuals with a little fund and then educate them on how to manage the finances, conduct businesses, get profits, how to save and use the profits for basic needs. This would be a great step to development of the community. Regular meetings to be arranged so that to check up on how they are fairing on. Later you will find out these people can even help develop their community in issues such as water sanitation and supply, health issues e.t.c. by use of their knowledge acquired from training and meet ups. These will make the NGO achieve its goal of the community not falling back to poverty..
This NGO has more plans to look at global issues too. This will happen when it has enough funds to implement some of technological and programming aspects. This will help the whole parts of the world to achieve sustainable development.

I urge you too take a look at this and help this dream come to pass. Your help will be kindly appreciated. All those who wii


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