Training and Support for Grassroots Organizations

Dear Supporter of Village Earth's programs to support grassroots organizations. 

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We are pleased to announce that this fall we have added three new innovative grassroots organizations to our Global Affiliate Program. If you're not familiar with the program it serves as a support structure for grassroots and intermediate organizations around the globe that foster the long-term empowerment of marginalized populations and communities. To date, we are partnernered with 20 different organizations in 14 countries. 

The three organization accepted into our program include:

Institute for Cultural Affairs - Nepal

Mission

CRDT’s mission is to sustainably improve food security, incomes, and living standards of subsistence rural communities in support of environmental conservation throughout Cambodia. We do this by providing sustainable livelihood development through community organization, business growth and environmental protection.

Vision

A Cambodia free from poverty and environmental degradation

Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT)

Mission

CRDT’s mission is to sustainably improve food security, incomes, and living standards of subsistence rural communities in support of environmental conservation throughout Cambodia. We do this by providing sustainable livelihood development through community organization, business growth and environmental protection.

Vision

A Cambodia free from poverty and environmental degradation

Growing Liberia Democracy

Mission

GOLD has set as it mission to promote poverty reduction as well as democratic and high quality governance in Liberia. The promotion is done through targeted interviews and continues with concept mapping exercises and community capacity building. The promotion seeks to empower local authority and their community to be able to effectively engage their law makers as to make policy decisions favorable for Liberians and to be fully transparent.

Vision

The Vision of GOLD is that everyone in Liberia has a good life and that the Governance of the country is of high quality and Democratic is ensured.

Also during this period, Village Earth implemented a comprehensive organizational capacity assessment which will establish a comparable baseline for all of our global affiliates. While we are still waiting for all the results to come in, we hope to be able to report on this date after the new year. 

Most recently, we have been actively supporting our affiliates to develop end of year fundraisign plans and look forward to working with them over the Holidays to help them achieve their respecrive fundraising goals. For the lates information about these campaigns, please like our https://www.facebook.com/VillageEarth/

Thank you!