Outreach > Sustainable Development
Transport, Lake Kivu, DRC
The overall purpose is... to overcome poverty in a sustainable way and to influence and assist others to achieve the same.
In September 2006 the Into Africa Planning Committee took a decision to introduce a Sustainable Development Program (SDP) to strengthen the Village Church Planting efforts in Africa. We have collaborated with Africa Co-operative Action Trust (ACAT) in designing our program.
The overall purpose is to use entrepreneurship as a means of enabling disadvantaged rural families to overcome poverty in a sustainable way and to influence and assist others to achieve the same. This involves:
- Facilitating entrepreneurial development
- Stimulating local economic activity
- Promoting and teaching sustainable business and development practices
Building Materials, Liberia
The short and long-term objectives are to provide active disadvantaged rural families with the opportunities, passion and capacity to achieve, and influence others to:
- Be members of sustainable community structures
- Achieve self reliance and sustain an ever-improving quality of life, including the reconstruction of families
- Address the causes of poverty
- Benefit from home food security
- Own a profitable business that will serve as a role model
- Be aware of, understand, and actively address the HIV and AIDS pandemic with a special focus on causes, symptoms, transmission, avoidance, stigma, alternate lifestyle, management of the virus and the provision of community-based support and care
The strategies to achieve these objectives are:
- Identify the target group and form groups of five
- Promote, teach and facilitate household food security
- Stimulate economic activities and establish profitable small businesses
- Identify and equip community volunteers to assist in implementing the program
- Promote and facilitate the establishment of sustainable community structures
