At the root, we understand poverty to be a multidimensional problem that is both caused and affected by broken relationships - with God, with others, with ourselves, and with the environment.
The broken relationships at the root of issues like the early childhood marriage Rebeca faced won’t be healed overnight. But that doesn’t mean we can’t also work to make a real, tangible difference for people experiencing poverty now.
Our local partners know that reducing extreme multidimensional poverty requires improving education, health, and standards of living in the communities where we work.
That’s why our partners are doing both types of work- the long-term work of healing broken relationships, like working with families to create safe environments for children to return to, as well as the daily work of reducing the impact and prevalence of extreme poverty, like offering safe housing, food, support, and education to young women and girls who have nowhere else to go.
