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COMMUNITY WORK

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We train local communities in Mozambique, Kenya and Malawi to strengthen their capacity to act.

We build cooperations with other organizations and support them in their work with our training. We act exclusively on request from the local partner.

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We develop context- relevant training curricula.

COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT-TRAINING IN MOZAMBIQUE, KENYA AND MALAWI

Our community-training-program serves pastors and local leaders and their communities to:

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  • identify and mobilize local resources to meet the community needs independent from outside help

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  • initiate community-development-projects and have true ownership of development

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  • overcome poverty-promoting worldviews about self, others, creation and God

 

The program includes skills training in:

 

  • health and hygiene

  • marriage and parenting

  • money management 

  • ecological farming

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We also educate local trainers from the very beginning to multiply the training program and to avoid creating dependencies. We focus on strengthening peoples ability to act, so that the affected people will find sustainable solutions to problems, that we as outsiders cannot even see.

SUSTAINABILITY AND CAPACITY TO ACT:

 

AUTONOMY AND OWNERSHIP

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES WILL ARISE OUT OF THE AFFECTED

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AND NOT FROM A FOREIGN AID ORGANIZATION

 

"The training has enabled me to see the gold that I am sitting on and around me, I used to think I am poor but this training has opened my eyes."

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"Transformation begins with us! We develop our communities with our competence and our own funds!"

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„I started to use the resources that I already had but was not aware of. I grew economically, my health has improved drastically and my realtionships with others are healing. I want to pass this on, therefore I volunteer to help others in similar situations to move out of poverty. “

In the following we would like to share a small selection of initiatives that the participants developed after our training to respond to the needs they identified in their communities:

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IMPORTANT NOTE: The persons in the pictures have a name and a voice and dignity. actMED asked them for permission to use this images (and obtained letter of agreements from parents when children are pictured).

Kenya:

Training at university level: Our kenyan partner organization works toward the inclusion of our training into university curricula.  We have already established a partnership with a university that has included our training in its theological curriculum.

Kenya:

​Initiative for people living with disabilities: people and children with disabilities are considered cursed in Kipsigis society and are largely neglected and locked away by the public. With practical help, home visits and training, Winny’s initiative addresses a social stigma, thereby breaking a cycle of poverty.

Kenya:

​As a result of the training, several students have set up a small chicken farm and even a small dairy farm. These students had previously hardly been able to feed themselves as day laborers and, according to their own statements, had no perspective on how they could change their lives.

Educational Garden

the effects of the training go beyond the students. Here, some students reached out to help a widowed, older woman to re-pave her hut with cow dung and thus save it from decay.

Mozambique:

Young girls and women who live on the streets are particularly vulnerable. Jose invites them for sewing classes, thaught by a volonteer, to offer them an alternative source of income instead of prostitution.

Mozambique:

​Jose Luis Rodrigues is leading several projects, that give children and adults access to education who suffer from the consequences of poverty and HIV / AIDS.

Mozambique:

​Jose runs a literacy program and weekly devotions with meals for children who live on the streets and do not go to school.

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Mozambique:

As a result of the training, Pastor Hassan also founded a ministry for children who live on the street. For many children, living in the street is the only perspective they have. Local initiatives such as those of Jose and Pastor Hassan making a difference in the lives of these children, and demonstrate the relevance and competence of the local church.

Mozambique:

Collection of trash: In light of the lack of public waste management, the private innatiative improves overall environmental and human health.

Mozambique:

Building of public toilets for the community: toiletts for public use improve  the hygienic situation and has an significant effect on general health.

(Pastors Odencio Salvador, Yohane Maconjessa)

Mozambique:

"Voice for the voiceless" (Pastor Sabala): Small local churches support  widows and orphans with food,  displaying the love of Christ, breaking the traditional role of giving and receiving, breaking the dependency syndrome.

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Mozambique:

Community Education Center: The building serves as child- daycare, literacy training and pastor training program. Every sunday it hosts  children lifing in the streets, receiving a meal and bible stories.

Mozambique:

child- daycare (Jose Luis Rodrigues):

In preschool age important foundations for the social and physical development of a child are laid. In the day care, the children are prepared for a good start in  primary school  and provided with a meal.

Mozambique:

Training of Trainers: Each training session is followed by a training for future trainers. In this way, the community can multiply the training program and becomes autonomous.  

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