THE ORGANIZATION
Global Hope Network International (GHNI) is an NGO headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with U.S. offices in Florida and Colorado. GHNI helps the poorest villages of Africa, the Middle East and Asia learn to transform themselves out of crippling poverty. GHNI helps those villages with its U.N.-highlighted coaching method called Transformational Community Development (TCD):
• TCD is coaching-based. Our indigenous staff gives villages a lot of development knowledge and a little funding.
• TCD is committee-based. Each village forms five development committees (Water, Food, Wellness, Income and Education). Those committees help their village transform sustainably… not the GHNI staff nor the West… and are the real heroes.
• TCD is low-cost, low-tech, locally available solutions. Thus a village can transform itself, and other villages can too, without waiting on government or western money.
CURRENT PROJECTS
In the Villages: Because TCD is coaching-based and village committee-based, all projects are initiated by the villages and carried out by the villages. Projects are mostly low-cost, low-tech initiatives including:
• Building family water filters with sand, pebbles, rocks and tubing.
• Creating small demonstration plots that show families how to grow food with very little water and natural local fertilizers.
• Digging family latrines and constructing them with rocks, sticks, and mud.
• Teaching simple health lessons that drastically lower disease and infant mortality.
• Launching simple businesses like fruit & vegetable shops, donkey carts, motorcycle transportation, cell phone charging, sewing, etc.
• Building rudimentary classrooms for a life-changing elementary school.
In the U.S.: We focus on a Village Partnership model. We want groups or individuals to fund TCD in one or more villages and form a supportive relationship with their village(s). Our Village Partnership efforts focus on things including:
• Presenting the opportunity to a church missions team.
• Presenting the opportunity to a company’s Corporate Social Responsibility group.
• Presenting the opportunity to high net worth individuals.
• Helping an individual with a large online network to run a social media campaign that gets 100 of their friends to “fully support a village” with them.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
• Internships: Apply to intern with our indigenous in-country staff, learning how they coach villages.
• Volunteer: Apply to volunteer as a Communication Coordinator or Fundraising Coordinator.
CONTACT AND INFORMATION
Jeff Power, Village Partnerships| [email protected] | 720-331-0348
http://www.ghni.org