why support fsd?
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Occidental College 12 December 2013
WHY SUPPORT?
FSD achieves community-‐driven goals through asset-‐based development and internaBonal exchange in Africa, Asia, and LaBn America.
our mission
FSD envisions a world where all people have the opportunity and capacity to direct economic, social, and environmental resources toward sustainable outcomes that improve their lives and communiBes.
our vision
-‐ Start With Assets, Not Problems -‐ MoBvate Community Ownership -‐ Generate Enduring Results and Impact -‐ Focus On The Site Teams
-‐ Build Capacity -‐ Be A Bridge -‐ Change PerspecBves -‐ Promote Reciprocity
our core values
SECTORS • health • economic development • youth development • educaBon • environment • appropriate technology • human rights • gender equity
PROGRAMS
• Capacity building of community partners
• Grants for community partner projects
• Training programs for volunteers
FSD at a glance
300 242 $846,250
262 308
17 45
by the numbers in 2014
FSD was established in 1995 in Nicaragua by Alicia Robb, with the following principles:
• Invest in local leadership and organizaAons to advance their missions
• Use a community-‐driven, asset-‐based approach
• Reciprocity is key • Operate with a non-‐profit, social entrepreneurial model
for sustainability
founding principles
• 300 community partners across our 10 program sites • Dynamic leadership | Small staff size | Limited resources
• Deep roots within the community
• Beneficiaries are ‘poor’ or ‘extremely poor’-‐ focus on marginalized • Already working in or willing to try our development approach
community partner organizaBons
• Leverage community strengths to address pressing issues
• Use sustainable, parBcipatory approach for community ownership in project design and implementaBon
• Capacity-‐building year-‐round provides organizaBonal and leadership development
• Seed funding and capital investment to support project
• Partnerships and networking with other organizaBons and community members
our value to community partners
FSD Community Partner Highlights in 2014
Caroline Yarborough, FSD intern, worked with Fundación Tejiendo Sueños to address unemployment in the community by forming a permanent marketplace for entrepreneurs to sell their goods. Capacity-‐building workshops were also created to strengthen financial management and cooperation among local entrepreneurs.
Economic Development in Salta, Argentina
FSD Partner Organization:
Fundación Tejiendo Sueños
Instituto para el Desarollo Humano recognized a connection between lack of HIV diagnosis and transmission to others. With the support of FSD, they developed an HIV Rapid Test Diagnosis Program to increase the availability of confidential screening services and mobilize at-‐risk groups to obtain free-‐of-‐charge testing and counseling.
FSD Partner Organization:
Instituto para el Desarollo Humano
Health in Cochabamba, Bolivia
FSD Partner Organization:
Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization
FSD Intern, Tanya Probert, worked with Kitovu Mobile to utilize indigenous micro-‐organism (IMO) technology, which teaches enhanced farming methods, allowing community members to do more with limited resources. This project now serves as a model for other farmers, providing training and information they can bring to their own homes.
Appropriate Technology in Masaka, Uganda
ALFA Educational Society and intern, Tucker Kelleher-‐Brozost, received an FSD grant to building a library in its community center procured by locally-‐sourced books and materials that will enhance access to education, increase political awareness and empowerment, and strengthen ALFA-‐run youth groups.
FSD Partner Organization: ALFA Educational Society
Youth Education in Udaipur, India
FSD supports REAP in developing “model homes” for other communities to replicate. For example, FSD supported a sustainable “biogas” system, which is a locally identified solution to addressing deforestation, depleting natural resources and lack of electricity by maximizing farming methods in remote, rural villages.
Environmental Sustainability in Masaka, Uganda
FSD Partner Organization:
Renewed Efforts to Alleviate Poverty (REAP)
Remote villages in Udaipur lack access to basic health services. Therefore, JJVS provides these communities with awareness and education on traditional, local medicinal resources. FSD supported their Guni Training and Treatment Center, a traditional source medicine and education to serve as primary healthcare.
FSD Partner Organization:
Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti (JJVS)
Health in Udaipur, India
“Getting Down to Beesinuss” is a project funded by FSD and facilitated by intern, Jacqueline Bruns, to expand the organization’s beekeeping business and generate profit. Critical to this initiative is also the development of a training program for community members in the honey producing process.
FSD Partner Organization:
The Association for Sustainable Development of Limon 2
Economic Development in Tola, Nicaragua
FSD funded a grant for FSD Intern, Allison Smith, and MASINFA to address both malnutrition and unemployment. Community members mobilized construct 10 community garden beds with training in bio-‐intensive gardening for improved access to nutritional foods and generating income by growing and selling their own crops.
Appropriate Technology in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
FSD Partner Organization:
MASINFA
In an effort to introduce a new habit of recycling, FSD intern, Daniela Lopez, and Colegio Nancimi were awarded an FSD grant to develop a project to provide training to youth in developing skills to turn “trash” into handicrafts. This, in turn, also serves as a source for youth to generate income.
FSD Partner Organization:
Colegio Nancimi
Environmental Sustainability in Tola, Nicaragua
FSD funded this capacity-‐building initiative to equip women with business skills and financial support in order to manage income-‐generating activities, improve their economic capacity and livelihoods, and help to liberate them from the bondage of poverty and discrimination—a clear example of a long-‐impact project.
Economic Development in Mombasa, Kenya
FSD Partner Organization:
Golden Financial Services
Emusanda Health Center wanted to strengthen their services to HIV positive individuals and diminish the stigma through empowerment efforts. With the support of FSd intern, Joseph Bejany, and an FSD grant, they developed a goat rearing business to provide a new skill and source of income for those with HIV/AIDS, while teaching the nutritional benefits of goat milk.
FSD Partner Organization:
Emusanda Health Center
Health in Kakamega, Kenya
The “Sustainable Salta” project funded by FSD with Intern, Sabrina Kerin, support sustainable entrepreneurs so to grow their businesses while strengthening their social and environmental impact through the creation of a network, educational workshops, and a formal certification process.
Economic Development in Salta, Argentina
FSD Partner Organization: Fundación Impulsar
FSD Partner Organization: Western Water and Sanitation Forum
(WEWASAFO)
Mwiyala Primary and intern, Dillon Zang, were awarded an FSD grant to pilot an Ecosan latrine addressing a recurring need for improved sanitation at this school. The latrine serves as a fertilizer for more environmentally-‐friendly waste disposal and an example for others to replicate in the surrounding area.
Environmental Sustainability in Kakamega, Kenya
FSD Partner Organization: Alternativa
Human Rights in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
As a result of extreme poverty in Nicaragua, many families depend on child labor for their survival. FSD supports Alternativa’s programs to curb such dependency by providing small loans and workshops on financial management to provide families with the skills and tools necessary to acquire and manage income.
FSD Partner Organization:
Baitambogwe SACCO
Economic Development in Jinja, Uganda
This Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) aimed to support the fishing community in enhancing their profits. To address improper handling and increased spoilage, FSD awarded a grant to intern, Thomas Palcynzski and Baitambogwe to develop a modern, more efficient method for fish drying. Supplementing these methods were also trainings in safety and marketing.
The “Libros for Literacy” program was funded by FSD and facilitated by intern, Jane Finocharo to provide access to education for orphaned and abandoned children. Aldeas Infantiles SOS constructed a small library at their center supplemented by books from a local seller.
Youth Development in Cochabamba, Bolivia
FSD Partner OrganizaAon:
Aldeas Infantiles SOS
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