About Us - Our Model
A Glimmer of Hope is run like a business and it measures its success like a business. It is in operation to turn a profit – a Social Profit.
A Glimmer of Hope’s mission is truly a heartfelt one: To help the rural poor of Ethiopia lift themselves out of poverty yet it understands the best way to achieve this is to operate entrepreneurially and expect results from its social investments.
And the best way to achieve these results is through Integrated Community Development.
This is a strategy that combines multiple initiatives to create sustainable development within a targeted community. It combines several key interventions that are required to help the rural poor lift themselves – and keep themselves – out of poverty. The three key elements can be described as Humanitarian, Development and Enterprise.
Enterprise: Refers to Income Generation and Micro-finance programs that provide a hand up to farmers, women and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to lift themselves out of poverty by way of agricultural and entrepreneurial income creation programs.
Development: Addresses Health Care and Education. The foundation has completed a major hospital rehabilitation project and built more than 150 clinics. Education is a key to breaking the cycle of poverty and A Glimmer of Hope has funded over 300 education projects (schools, classrooms, educational materials, furnishings, etc.).
Humanitarian: Addresses the basic need for clean drinking water. A Glimmer of Hope constructs three types of water projects: hand-dug wells, spring protection schemes and bore-holes. To date, it has funded almost 3,000 water initiatives throughout Ethiopia.
There has to be a better way
A Glimmer of Hope was founded on the principle that International Aid can and must be delivered in an efficient way. |