- 296 pages
- English
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About This Book
Extreme poverty can be alleviated one village at a time.The current practices of global aid agencies, governments, and NGOs all focus on the same failed strategy: transfer payments. The problem is that moving money without growing local economic systems for sustainability does not work. People need jobs and businesses, not handouts. There is a better way.In this book you will discover how these different systems can positively work together to bring about the long-term, locally sustainable results that we all desire. This is transformational work, and we will need to pause on the rhetoric, biases, and existing structural models to engage in a different way of doing things. Donors, communities in transition, local leaders, churches, governments--all are invited to revamp our thinking to actually achieve the results that form our common goal.No one wants to be seen in a poverty state. God doesn't create people to be poor and impoverished. He does not! God gives--generously. That is why every community around the globe already has vast, untapped resources of human talent and vision, a treasure trove of divinely bestowed potential awaiting harvest. It's time to partner together for sustainable solutions to poverty!
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Essential Element I: Vision
- Essential Element II: Empowering Local Change Agents
- Essential Element III: Thinking in New Ways
- Essential Element IV: Project and Organization Leadership
- Essential Element V: Adopting New Models for Missions
- Essential Element VI: Global Exposure for New International Leaders
- Essential Element VII: Growing the Project Through Phases
- Essential Element VIII: Local Mission-Supporting Businesses and Income Types
- Essential Element IX: Economic Expansion
- Essential Element X: Social Justice and Compassion: The Great Divide
- Conclusion
- Bibliography