Too often aid groups focus only on one area of development: water or education or healthcare, etc., rather than what the community really needs: a holistic solution that forever ends poverty.

With Adopt a Village, our international development model, there are five core pillars to ending poverty: Education, Water and Sanitation, Health, Alternative Income and Livelihood, and Agriculture and Food Security. Each of these projects serves to enhance the other, ensuring the greatest overall impact in each area of intervention, and achieving long-term sustainability.

Education: schools teach habits of healthy homes, business skills, and how to increase farming output enhances healthcare, alternative income and food security
Clean Water and Sanitation: preventing water-borne illness enhances healthcare; allowing girls and women to spend less time fetching water and more time attending school or setting-up small business enhances education and alternative income
Health: children healthy to thrive enhances education; quickly treating illness ensures that people do not lose their savings and enhances alternative income
Alternative Income and Livelihood: profits from small business ensures the community has the means to repair water projects, pay school fees, support medical projects, and re-invest into farms - all of which enhances the sustainability of water & sanitation, education, medical and food security
Agriculture and Food Security: children at school with a full stomach ready to learn enhances education; a proper diet preventing illness enhances healthcare
Through Adopt a Village, we do not give hand-outs to individuals. We do not give a home or a pair of shoes or other personal items. Instead, we seek the greatest benefit through investing in the community infrastructure. Once a village has these five core pillars, then all members are able to thrive, make individual purchases, and lift themselves forever out of poverty. We believe that success is when someone never needs charity again.