Families
living in rural poverty dream of achieving sustainable food and income self-sufficiency, so that their children can grow up healthy, educated and able to support a family of their own. This means that the following are very important to them:
Focus – on taking sustainable steps that lead to their food and income self-sufficiency.
Value – produced using sustainable self-sufficiency solutions.
Energy – from the positive experience of receiving a fair and reasonable return for the value produced, which builds wealth, sense of self worth and emotional energy.
Framework
for collaborating with families and other interested parties to design and implement sustainable self-sufficiency solutions that create value and emotional energy.
Principles – influence families and other interested parties’ vision for the future and how they achieve it.
Process – for collaborating with families and other interested parties to design and implement solutions.
Programs – of solutions that assist families to achieve their vision.
Partners – who assist families to design and implement solutions.
Impact – of solutions on families’ health, education and income prospects.