VIVIENDASLEON
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Mission Statement
ViviendasLeón is an international non-profit sustainable development organization whose mission is to eliminate rural poverty. We empower and equip rural communities to be the agents of their own transformation.
About This Cause
ViviendasLeón invests in people: We believe that rural poverty can be eliminated by understanding and addressing its root causes - socio-emotional, environmental and practical - and creating a culture of transformation within the communities where it exists. For more than twenty years, we have worked with rural communities in Nicaragua and Central America to achieve measurable, sustainable improvements in their standards of living. By bringing together international groups of students and volunteers to participate in this work first-hand, we create networks of support and a commitment to social justice. Our approach: 4 and 10 We invest in communities intensively, for the long term. Our unique, four-year development program systematically addresses the emotional, technical and economic needs of a population to build resilience, create capacity and break the cycle of rural poverty. Following our series of incremental, integrated training programs over 4 years, 10% of families in each community achieve a sustaining level of training, food production, water security, sanitation and income generating activities. This critical mass cultivates the personal agency necessary to sustain progress, while our micro-enterprise development expands economic opportunities. Our Philosophy ViviendasLeon employs a human-centered and asset-based approach to sustainable development, focusing on personal agency, capacity building and resource protection, resulting in resilient communities. We work with communities to identify their human and natural assets, while protecting the resources that exist in a community through education in environmental stewardship and management. We provide counseling and training to address fundamental issues of self-esteem, gender equality, self-governance and public health. Our vision is to create a flexible model of development that is replicable in other communities and populations. By developing personal agency and capacity among populations that have historically been disadvantaged, we hope to reduce violence and inequality, to promote leadership and self-governance, to protect and restore environmental resources and develop economic security through local and diversified development.