When we talk about breaking the cycle of poverty we have to look at breaking it for the long term. Showing up for one month at a time every now and then would be like handing a village a toothbrush and a bottle of toothpaste and saying ‘enjoy a lifetime of minty fresh [...]
When we look at the people we are serving, it is important to understand the characteristics of Poverty. The folks at Enterprise Development International do a great job on defining poverty here where they define 6 keys: 1)Material Poverty 2) Physical Weakness 3) Isolation 4) Vulnerability 5) Powerlessness 6) Spiritual Poverty.
We probably each have [...]
This post is courtesy of Nick, our newly appointed Vice President of J2S! Congratulations Nick! More on the results of our recent meeting to follow, but for now here are Nick’s thoughts on solidifying the future and the vision.
‘To enable the development of a mission statement I first asked who the customers of [...]
To quote Dave Barry “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings”
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So when I lived in Virginia as a Nuclear Engineer I would have [...]
