OUTREACH 2018 ISSUE 2
EMPOWERFUL Renewable, Sustainable, Perpetual Success
WHO WILL YOU EMPOWER NEXT?
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
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REFLECTIONS FROM SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS
Empowerful
Encouraging Words From an Engaged Team
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ELEMENTS OF EMPOWERMENT
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CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HAITI
Taming Bolivia From the Ground Up
Reading, Writing and Rebuilding in Petionville
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PROJECT UPDATES Snapshots From Our Worldwide Highlight Reel
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PRESIDENT ART DIRECTION & DESIGN EDITOR & WRITER
Kevin Prine Heather Wiley Dave Coates
TRIBUTES
People Who Make Us Possible
FROM THE PRESIDENT
EMPOWERFUL We are in an age when Block.one, a new cryptocurrency company without a finished product, is valued at an amount greater than Sears, Kmart and J.C. Penney, combined. This past month, Kylie Jenner made the cover of Forbes magazine because she is a 20-year-old billionaire, with seven employees. As a former professor of business and a believer in the idea that human beings generally make rational decisions when given accurate information, I wonder if the market is telling us something about how the world has changed. For most of recorded history, people have created economic value through their minds and hands. That is still true, but advances in technology, software and social media now dramatically expand our ability to influence the behavior of others. This is what power looks like now. Outreach has been utilizing these same principles of peer influence and viral spreading for almost forty years. True sustainability does not come through handouts from privileged to powerless but from partnerships conveying prosperity and pride. Our model gets passed from one family to another, from one village to another, from one country to another.
“True sustainability does not come through handouts from privileged to powerless but from partnerships conveying prosperity and pride.” Please look at the pictures and stories in this magazine to see the impact you are making in this world. Rediscover the thing you’ve always known: It is by empowering others that we become truly powerful. Sincerely,
Dr. Kevin W. Prine President & CEO OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL 112 West 18th Street Kansas City, MO 64108 888.833.1235 Toll-Free USA
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OUR MISSION Outreach International empowers communities to work together and improve their lives. Our key investment is in people themselves: women, men and children who possess stunning resilience, untapped intelligence, inherent creativity and undeniable dignity. Projects don’t end poverty. People do. Together with our supporters and facilitators, we equip our partners with a voice to express their concerns, a venue to be heard, the means to access materials and resources, and the skills to cultivate sustainable solutions to the issues they face. We facilitate enduring change and lasting hope. Together.
EMPOWERED: COMMUNITY PARTNERS Empowering people in our communities is more than a matter of labor and logistics. Sustainable progress requires self-reflection on both sides of a goal. Throughout the last year, our partners shared some thoughts on their motivations to work together and forge a permanent end to chronic poverty. “Opportunities come, and sometimes we fear that we may not be up to it, or we cannot manage them successfully. But if we pass up the opportunity, we might regret it. Hard work and perseverance, those are the words that should motivate a person to accept an opportunity that comes their way.” — Tess and Badet, Community Partners, Philippines “Never in our life as a community had we taken the effort nor the time to talk about our problems. Always others spoke for us. Now we have raised our voices so that together we can change our community.” — Ricardo, Community Partner, Nicaragua “I once had no vision of my future. Now I have hope for what my future can be.” — Evelyn, Community Partner, Malawi “If a community member wishes to get involved in the group, I would first congratulate him for having awakened 4
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his love for the community work that is carried out with the cooperative. I would also share that community work is not easy, but with perseverance and community love we can achieve many things.” — Arnoldo, Community Partner, Nicaragua
try until you succeed!’ and, ‘Keep moving forward!’ Go ahead and dream, but do not stop at dreaming. Make sure to accomplish that dream!” — Reis, Community Partner, Philippines
“I have seen the traditional happiness of people [in poor communities] that results from short-term fixes and handouts, but their happiness does not change the people themselves, their behavior or their way of working. The clear direction of the Outreach Process is to facilitate the resolution of issues in the community, to strengthen the capacity of the people, and to empower the communities as a result.” — Sopha, Facilitator, Cambodia “We are grateful for the huge help from those who guided us. We hope that our story inspires and encourages readers. If they are like us, just starting with their organization or projects, we say, ‘Try and
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Those present during Outreach’s earliest years established our spirit of practical innovation and worked selflessly to equip us with the clarity and determination to sustain our shared success. Their continued support has allowed us to grow our work, empowering even more communities to draw on their own capacity and work as a team to achieve their goals. “Perhaps our greatest contribution is to share with the world the way of life taught by the One who created that life […] trusting to lead us into a future laden with opportunities and crowned with the realization of a more perfect human society.” — Dr. Vicki Ross, Outreach Newsletter, 1984
“With the move to a new headquarters, Outreach will be able to continue growing, catching the attention of the downtown Kansas City crowd and engaging them in Outreach’s philosophy. That’s the reason Outreach was formed — so others could join us in our mission to help the poor.” — Bill Higdon, Former President and Board Chair
“I was a part of the first iteration of Outreach, along with Charles Neff and Roy Schaefer. Our shared vision was to raise awareness of chronic global poverty and engage others.
“My wife, Susan, and I have been Outreach supporters since 1983. From the start, Outreach’s mission resonated with us — a belief in the worth of all persons, and a commitment to empower them to help themselves through permanent solutions, regardless of who they are or where they live.
“One of the best things about Outreach is that it functions on a broad base of values that everyone can share, since we all want to help. The more people have joined us from all walks of life over the years, the more we’ve been able to accomplish in communities and people’s lives.
WHAT EMPOWERS OUTREACH? YOU! Testimonials aside, our sustainable results speak for themselves. Our goal for this magazine is to raise $35,000 to support our partners and projects. You can be a conduit for the success that illuminates lives for generations to come. Empowerment is the ultimate renewable resource. To make your donation, please complete this form and return it using the enclosed envelope.
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“In 2011, I became Outreach’s CFO, with duties that included managing and accounting for the resources entrusted to us by our donors to ensure that every dollar spent throughout the world reflected supporters’ wishes, as well as our mission. “Recently, I had a chance to talk with one of our founders about the Outreach of today. He told me, ‘You are doing exactly what we hoped for when we started Outreach.’ “A lot has changed over the years, but the most important things have stayed the same: We are still working with some of the poorest people on the planet and empowering them to recognize their ability to resolve the issues they face. “And, just as in 1983 (and virtually every year since), Susan and I will be donors! We have witnessed firsthand the impact that we can have on the lives of others. Some of the details may have changed, but the men and women who work here continue to uphold the incredible mission established at the outset, to serve humanity at its point of need, all over the world.” — Orval Fisher, Former Outreach CFO outreachshop.org
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BOLIVIA’S LANDSCAPE SEEMS DESIGNED FOR GIANTS. The dome of the sky, infinitely out of reach, looks oppressively expansive. The land below rolls on and on, with valleys that spill winds across shimmering fields, through stoic gangs of trees and over mountains that are so incongruous their emergence seems to have caught the soil by surprise. Whatever earthly environment exists elsewhere can be found here, if you look hard enough or wait long enough. Even a glance is inspirational. Consider this description, written by one of Outreach Bolivia’s facilitators about his early morning arrival in an Outreach-affiliated community: “We could feel in our faces the gusts of a strong wind blowing cold air; at the same time, the sun peeked through the neighboring mountains, and you could smell the aroma of fresh grass!” Just another day at the office. For Outreach’s Bolivian community partners, harmonizing with their environment ensures greater comfort and stability amid its extremes. The surrounding abundance is happy to share, if you know how to ask. EDUCATION: Primary-school students in Kauca might possess a more accurate understanding of the world than any previous generation did. “We teach with tangible things from the environment, to help children understand that they are not in the world they’re of the world,” explains Juan, their instructor. “We talk about what it means to ‘live well,’ emphasizing the integrity of combining critical thinking with a social conscience. So it’s not a theory for them. It’s a productive practice.” Recently, students ventured out of the classroom to enjoy a literal “field trip” for a unit on ecology, to learn about plant biology firsthand. WATER WELLS: As a means of demonstrating their desire to improve
access to clean water, community partners took it upon themselves to organize into groups and collect sand and gravel to begin constructing ringed water wells. While some hauled materials, others handled tunnel-digging duties. When husbands objected to extra work, wives stepped into leadership roles. The resulting wells provide peace of mind in addition to refreshment, each covered by a lid to block contamination and prevent accidents. REFORESTATION: A tree is never just a tree, so the benefits of reforestation go well beyond material abundance and mornings filled with birdsong. The primary advantages of planting pine trees are straightforward: lumber, firewood, construction materials and extra income earned from the sale of each. The shade underneath is only the start of the secondary benefits it creates a “microclimate” in which warm-weather staples such as corn and shade lovers like mushrooms can grow. The fungus is “a product that grows while the people can do their other work,” says Florencia, an Outreach facilitator. As for market growth, longtime community partner Norberto showed off the results of his eight years of reforestation efforts during a recent visit: an estimated 9,000 pines on his property. GREENHOUSES: Life in the open isn’t easy for vegetables in Bolivia. Strong winds, extreme temperatures and curious creatures with undiscriminating palates are just a few of the challenges, making greenhouses both a refuge and an incubator. For 70-yearold Feliciano, bringing his garden indoors signifies a major mealtime upgrade. “Now,” he says, “we eat fresh vegetables that we have not bought at the market for many years” onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach and celery, to name a few. What Feliciano’s family doesn’t eat, they sell, improving their income as well as their nutritional diversity. The intensity and scale that make up the natural elements of life in rural Bolivia seem, at a glance, disharmonious. Finding a place to thrive is a matter of adding one’s voice to the chorus. Serapio, another Outreach community partner, speaks to this while showing off the projects that have reshaped his home life. “Thanks to this well of water, I have cultivated many things in my garden,” he says. “The apple and peach trees give good fruits each year. To protect the vegetables I grow from cold winds, I made a wall with pines. Because of that, I can now grow lettuce, onions and potatoes.” Whatever isn’t enjoyed by his family can be sold at market, which, in turn, covers the cost of things like new school uniforms for his children, so they can learn about the world and their place in it. Throughout Outreach’s partner communities, new trees line the horizon. Water has been coaxed closer to homes, clean and tame. The land, sheltered from extremes, has been seduced into sharing its bounty. High above all the new work, new growth and new hope sprouting along the landscape, the sky’s the limit. outreachshop.org
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CONTINUINGEDUCATION How Petionville Went Back to School
“A SCHOOL IS FOUR WALLS WITH TOMORROW INSIDE.” — LON WATTERS All of us, no matter our circumstance, take things for granted as a means of ordering our lives. The sun will rise and set. Birds will sing, clouds will pass, and each new day is an opportunity to refine and perfect all that has come before. Disaster rarely creeps; it strikes, sudden and catastrophic, enforcing disorder and upending our sense of normalcy, our safety and certainty. When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the community of Petionville, Haiti, in 2010, structural damage to buildings and homes equaled the harm visited upon the continuity of residents’ lives. Children too young to understand what was happening “believed there was a big snake moving around underground,” 8
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according to others who were present. The loss of life and destruction of property were the deepest, most immediate tragedies, but as the event receded into the past, other foundational absences lingered, symbols of promise replaced with an empty space looming over cracked foundations. BUILDING BLOCKS OF EXPERTISE For residents of Petionville and Outreach supporters from Community of Christ, rebuilding a school was more than an attempt to recapture normalcy. It was a concerted effort to reject tragedy and assert resilience. Together with architects from nonprofit design firm Article 25, local experts, leaders and workers, Petionville came together to plan, design and erect a new school to stand as a symbol of, and inspiration for, the strength that comes from hope.
The undertaking was more than a matter of logistics, according to Bea Sennewald, director of projects at Article 25. “We talk to everyone in the community who will be involved. It’s more than just a school — it’s there 24 hours a day and has many other uses outside school hours that can be integrated, such as classes for adult literacy, cooking, sewing or making things that can be sold to improve livelihoods, and you don’t know what those things actually are until you engage with the community,” she said. “This is their school, not ours.”
Inclusivity is a wonderful approach, but the feel-good vibe stops immediately if the building crumbles in a future earthquake. “We worked with seismic engineers to ensure that the school was ready for anything,” Mahdi said. “For instance, the gable walls in this community room reflect a ‘seismic design’ approach, so instead of being the first thing to collapse in an earthquake, they’re the reason it’s still standing afterward.”
After the firm consulted with community partners to determine a versatile design that would serve their needs, construction began on a school that boasted six classrooms, multiple restrooms and handwashing stations, a kitchen, a rainwater catchment and storage system, and a “community room” to accommodate larger gatherings and assemblies. Ultimately, the school could accommodate 300 students.
The opening ceremony drew hundreds of residents, supporters and prospective students. Augustin, the school program coordinator, articulated the gratitude felt toward those who helped make the day possible: “Please, noble assembly,” he addressed the crowd, “turn your eyes to this brand-new room that has been directly and gracefully built by donors to Outreach International.” Church donors, he said, “decided to invest in the human, particularly in children’s education, to show their belief in the value of any human person.
Setbacks and slowdowns led to revised timelines for completion numerous times during construction, but neither the generous support of Outreach donors nor the determination of the community ever wavered. Bit by bit, year by year, the school took shape, filling the empty patch of sky that had served as a reminder of loss for so long. IN PRACTICE, MADE PERFECT
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“We are grateful for your unconditional contribution to the children of Haiti, their sacrifice, their deep love and their fraternal sense of selflessness.” As the new school year approaches, the children of Petionville are poised to reclaim their sense of certainty and embark on a path ahead with a sense of direction. What for years was a
This past June, church representatives, Outreach CEO Dr. Kevin Prine, Director of Field Operations Andrea Read and members of Article 25 gathered with Petionville residents and school administrators to celebrate the end of construction and the beginning of a new era. Though climbing temperatures outside threatened the comfort of those in formal attire for the event, the building’s sensible design maintained a climate of jubilation in the community room. Sitting near the back, Abul Mahdi, a project architect from Article 25, reflected on the considerations that went into ensuring a successful outcome. “We’ve been in here all day with hundreds of people in this room, and no one’s broken out in a sweat,” he said, pointing around the room. “The roof was designed with solar shading and cross-ventilation, so all the hot air escapes.” As a participatory project, the goal went beyond putting up a building; it was to build something more than a structure. The school “fits into the local context, the climatic conditions, using materials that are available locally as well as utilizing the construction methods that people here are used to.”
reminder of the impermanence of foundational elements now symbolizes something they may never have seen in their young lives: something miraculous that didn’t appear instantly, as if by magic, but instead emerged carefully, deliberately and confidently from the broken ground like a sapling stretching toward the sky. It represents more than a place for learning or nutritious daily meals. It is a story. A statement. An inspiration. A testament to the magnitude of hope, trust and partnership. Unshakable. outreachshop.org
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PROJECT UPDATES BOLIVIA: Lavaplatos & Greenhouses
Families have implemented molded-concrete “lavaplatos” washbasins in their homes, learned about the construction and maintenance of greenhouses to increase the diversity and yield of family gardens, and pursued agricultural initiatives to help farmers increase efficiency as well as their income through modernized farming practices. For a closer look at our work in Bolivia, see Page 6!
CAMBODIA: Community Integration
All systems go! Indigenous staff have completed their study of the Outreach Process’ methodology, and their integration into communities has been met with more enthusiasm and success than anyone anticipated. As one of their final training sessions, staff members met with Outreach Philippines facilitator Felee to prepare for their first community meetings and master “Problem Identification and Prioritization” (PIP), to determine each community’s most pressing need.
DR CONGO: Community Feeding Program
Mothers in Lwamisamba organized a Superflour feeding program for their community to address nutritional shortfalls in the diets of children whose parents cannot afford to provide more than one daily meal. Additionally, partners have begun selling Superflour in small packages, priced to be affordable by most community members, to generate income for project participants and ensure that everyone has enough to eat each day.
HAITI: New Community Primary School
After six years of design and planning and 19 months of construction, the new school in the Petionville community is finally complete, having held its opening ceremony in June. Read more about this triumph on Page 8!
INDIA: Widows’ Pensions
With encouragement and support from Outreach facilitators throughout six Outreach-affiliated communities, dozens of widows have mobilized to access monthly government benefits. The pensions provide modest resources so the women can afford food and medication each month. Besides the material benefits, regaining a degree of independence and agency in their lives prevents feelings of social marginalization that can come from having to depend on their families for resources. 10
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PROJECT UPDATES MALAWI: New Community Preschool
Thanks to years of careful management of community funds, residents of Cheheni had the necessary resources to convert a disused church into a bustling community hub for early childhood education. The new school has two motivated volunteer teachers, dozens of local students, newly donated uniforms, and a budget that covers renovations and ongoing maintenance, guaranteeing an appealing destination for kids to make learning a lifelong habit.
NEPAL: Literacy Classes
After learning that women in the Pahade Thapa Guan community felt isolated by their inability to use smartphones, Outreach staff organized a mobile-literacy class and discovered the issue wasn’t phones — it was phonics. After shifting focus to reading and writing, the women feel better integrated into society and are able to help their children with schoolwork, as well as sending them texts to cheer them on before class.
NICARAGUA: Water Filters
Nearly 150 households in Los Alvarez rely on three gravitypowered aqueducts to bring water to their community. Heavy seasonal rains that make up the supply also wash debris and sediment into the water’s path, rendering it too dirty for use. In April, partners obtained 45 water filters and attended workshops focused on health, personal hygiene and environmental impact to ensure their understanding of best practices remains as clear as the water they now enjoy.
PHILIPPINES: Goat Project
In recognition of their years of dedication to their community, Tess and Badet, two mothers from Bosque, were awarded 12 goats by their local government to help them increase and stabilize their respective incomes. Besides the healthy profits earned by selling the goats’ offspring, the women report that the process of acquiring the goats taught them ways to better communicate their problems and consider possible solutions, and brought them closer as friends and neighbors.
ZAMBIA: Treadle Pumps
As the country’s dry season approaches, residents of Tuilange, a new Outreach-affiliated community, have arranged to receive 13 foot-powered treadle pumps to expedite and improve irrigation for their crops. Each pump is shared among a cluster of three farmers, who work out scheduling and logistics among themselves to ensure equal access to the equipment. outreachshop.org
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