World Neighbors
Country: Tanzania
Category: Poverty Alleviation
Total Raised: $580
How have we helped?
The funds were raised by 21st Century Leaders, from the sale of Whatever It Takes products.
21st Century Leaders funding was used for World Neighbors' Tanzania programme.
About World Neighbors
World Neighbors is an international development organisation. Their approach is unique – they do not give away food or material aid. Instead, they provide training so that people gain the skills and leadership to work together for change.
They operate programmes for an average of five to 10 years, and take pride that most of their experienced International Programme staff and volunteers are local people from the countries in which they work.
As World Neighbors moves to other areas of need, they leave behind a network of leaders with the skills to enable the community to undertake development initiatives on their own.
Their approach is simple. In cooperation with their global neighbors, they:
• Select the areas where they work on the basis of need and opportunity.
• Listen to what the community have to say & what limits their success and establish a relationship of trust.
• Help strengthen the recipient’s capacity to identify, analyse & solve their own problems using locally available resources and the simplest tools to do the job.
• Try new ideas on a small scale. Stay practical to generate early enthusiasm & success.
• Help document the results and apply lessons learned to improve programmes.
• Reinforce their capacity to maintain & multiply results and ongoing problem-solving processes by forming new partnerships and by coordinating with additional villages & local organisations.
• Widen program impact by documenting and sharing the results and processes with larger-scale organisations, villages, networks, coalitions and governments to influence policies and actions.
How have we helped?
The funds were raised by 21st Century Leaders, from the sale of Whatever It Takes products.
21st Century Leaders funding was used for World Neighbors' Tanzania programme.
About World Neighbors
World Neighbors is an international development organisation. Their approach is unique – they do not give away food or material aid. Instead, they provide training so that people gain the skills and leadership to work together for change.
They operate programmes for an average of five to 10 years, and take pride that most of their experienced International Programme staff and volunteers are local people from the countries in which they work.
As World Neighbors moves to other areas of need, they leave behind a network of leaders with the skills to enable the community to undertake development initiatives on their own.
Their approach is simple. In cooperation with their global neighbors, they:
• Select the areas where they work on the basis of need and opportunity.
• Listen to what the community have to say & what limits their success and establish a relationship of trust.
• Help strengthen the recipient’s capacity to identify, analyse & solve their own problems using locally available resources and the simplest tools to do the job.
• Try new ideas on a small scale. Stay practical to generate early enthusiasm & success.
• Help document the results and apply lessons learned to improve programmes.
• Reinforce their capacity to maintain & multiply results and ongoing problem-solving processes by forming new partnerships and by coordinating with additional villages & local organisations.
• Widen program impact by documenting and sharing the results and processes with larger-scale organisations, villages, networks, coalitions and governments to influence policies and actions.