We gradually transfer responsibilities into the community so that project management, technical and agricultural skills can be acquired.

Our methods contrast with the ‘aid delivery process’. It is usual for an aid agency, after the initial thinking, to engage a contractor through a bidding/selection process. The project is delivered, sometimes efficiently, by outsiders in accordance with good management practice.

So a community may enjoy for a while the benefit, but it has not gained a capacity for self determination, it is as reliant as before on others to do the thinking and run projects. There is little sense of ownership.

The application of funds does not buy the eradication of poverty. Even within a wealthy country, money given for the relief of poverty fails when the money does not create prosperity.

We focus on capital, the local economy and the creation of prosperity.