Tag: outsiders

Faith-Based Nonprofits Versus Haiti

Our mission is “to facilitate the intellectual, spiritual, and character development of Haitians who demonstrate leadership potential and to assist them in becoming self-supporting, responsible, community-minded members of their society.” –Haiti Share Inc.   “We promote the gospel of Jesus by encouraging Haitian children and adults to work with their local church body to help…
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Four Things to Offer Than Solutions

Yes you could provide “solution” to this or that problem in the global South. But should that be your role? When building relationships and trust, what if instead you offered the space for four things to occur: You create the space for safety and acceptance. Whatever is going on in someone’s mind, whatever the circumstances,…
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Solidarity Is An Unlikely Attitude

Being known as the Republic of NGOs, we can conclude that the government is not doing a great job in many sectors which creates the inflow of new nonprofits produced every year. For NGOs whose services are similar to what the Haitian government should be doing for its citizens form this attitude. What does this…
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Ten Rules for Helping

From The Rules for helping- we learn of The Taranaki Rules by Warren Feek for outsiders who help develop strategies to support grassroots-organization. This includes those who are looking to be a volunteer  or a full/part time employee where you are going to leave your cozy life in the States to stay and do “good…
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