FEATURE ARTICLES TO TOUCH YOUR HEARTICLES
FEATURE ARTICLES TO TOUCH YOUR HEARTICLES
Every day around the world, Outreach’s community partners are working together to reach their goals and forge a sustainable path out of chronic poverty. We are honored to share their stories with you.
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Every day around the world, Outreach’s community partners are working together to reach their goals and forge a sustainable path out of chronic poverty. These are their stories.
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Ladies’ Might: The Empowered Women of Outreach
Some of the women and girls in communities around the world who are too brilliant and busy to wait for permission.
Extending Our Reach, Expanding Our Horizons
Renovating a building, and creating structure to support the weight of an empowered world.
Lights, Cambodia, Action!
What we do before we do what we do in a new country.
Meet Evelyn
A small miracle grows up.
Fishing Lessons
Angling for more than metaphors in the Philippines.
Meet Lumu
Reaching out and making new connections with a mobile literacy class in Nepal.
Bolivia’s Snapshots Will Make You Clap Lots
New developments come into focus.
Meet Arnoldo
At the end of this post, he gives the best advice we've ever heard.
A Class Act in Haiti
Finishing work and starting the party at a new school in Haiti.
Beginners’ Luck
Tess and Badet get some goats and bring order to their lives, your life, and the nature of the universe itself.
From the CEO: Empowerful
Power shifts for the better.
A Rising Tide in Villa Corazon
Making streams come true in the Philippines.
It’s-a Degree, Mario!
An Outreach facilitator enounters a high bar in his efforts to earn a law degree, and passes it.
Permanent Good: Outreach’s Legacy Circle
Planting ahead for future growth.
Empowered: Outreach’s Longtime Supporters
Hindsight, foresight and insights from those who know us best.
Elements of Empowerment
Finding new horizons among Bolivia's harsh landscape.
The Busy Season
Doing more with more in Malawi.
The Ripe Stuff
You say "tomato;" partners in the Philippines say "another sustainable symbol of community-led development."
To Stir, with Love
The most inspirational story ever written about tomatoes.
Mama’s Family: Emeldah’s Story
Raising children, and lifting them higher.
Superflour, Superpower
Nourishment for all, from the ground-up.
Windermere’s Zoo-manitarian Prep Rally
Ready, Pet, Good.
Class, in Session: 12 Days of Giving for High School Students
Los estudiantes ponen sus donaciones caritativas donde está su boca.
G. Scott Lacy’s Joyful Noises
A longtime Outreach donor's symphony of support.
Outreach Ink-ernational with Stan and Gina Zeamer
Inking locally, acting globally.
This is Not a Joke
Q: Knock-knock. A: Whos there Q: Outreach. A: Outreach Who Q: Outreach Nepal, where we just expanded to bring our unique, proven approach to resolving chronic poverty to a whole new part of the world.
The ABCs of HDFs in Nepal
Get aquainted with the 10 newest members of the Outreach family as they kick off our expansion into Nepal.
Speaking Voluntarily
To celebrate National Volunteer Week, Outreach is proud to share a few examples of our volunteers' extraordinary grace and ingenuity. We couldn't do any of this without you! Literally! We're donor-supported!
M-bracing MPATs M-plementation
MPAT, or the Multi-Dimensional Poverty Assessment Tool, is the most comprehensive method to measure povertys presence in a community, then quantify and assess the results of the efforts and methods employed as all parties work toward building a stronger, more prosperous future.
Calling All Cards
Partners in India work hard for work-cards.
Service to Others, Service to All: Our Volunteers, in Their Own Words
Speaking from the heart!
Meet Luz Dania from Nicaragua
Luz Diana inspires us faster than we expected in our first Staff Q&A.
From the CEO: Stewardship, Partnership, Friendship
Growing closer to positive outcomes, and to each other.
Meet Michel from Congo
Michel brings wisdom to spare in another classic Outreach Staff Q&A.
Gary Logan Goes the Distance
Helping the human race, one marathon at a time.
Making (of) a Splash – Before & After a Water Well
Community-led development, in vibrant technicolor!
Meet Rashmi from India
Country Coordinator Rashmi takes a moment out of saving the world to indulge us for her Staff Q&!
Hot Shots with Wayne Rowe
Show-and-tell with Outreach's intrepid shutterbug.
From the Magazine: 1,000* Words with Wayne Rowe
Outreach's go-to humanitarian photographer Wayne Rowe takes a closer look at his work, and a wider view of his subjects' lives,
Ready, Set, Good: Sushila Puts Theory into Practice in Nepal
Cross-cultural confabs confer concrete conclusions.
Looking Inward, Speaking Outreach: Our Teammates in Their Own Words
Insights from our teammates around the world, found in quiet moments between triumphs.
The System Works
Community partners in the Philippines harnessed funding from the successful partnership between Outreach and Dial from Global Handwashing Day 2016 to jumpstart a community-wide water system. We love it when a plan comes together.
The High-Water Mark
Outreach community partners in Nicaragua faced an ongoing dilemma: In order to find clean water for bathing, cooking, and cleaning, they had to travel long distances, carry heavy jugs, and eat into hours when they could be earning a living or completing other chores.
Lift a Finger and Lend a Hand for a Healthier World
Outreach International is thrilled to continue our partnership with Dial for another year to celebrate Global Handwashing Day.
One, Tube, Three
Tube wells: Explained! Community-led implementation for community-wide benefit: Explored! Sustainable solutions to previously persistent issues: Achieved!
Get Wells Soon
How do you bring clean water to 1,800 people in DR Congo? Start with some facilitation from Outreach, and stir in planning, teamwork, dedication and a generous gift from Dial in celebration of Global Handwashing Day 2016. Spoiler: It turns out, uh, well.
Staff Q&A: Mwila from Outreach Zambia
Join Mwila from Zambia as she guides us through her Staff Q&A, and enjoy the sense of empowerment that lingers long after you finish reading.
Stomping Out Chronic Poverty
Community members in Zambia step up to a pedal-powered solution to keeping crops quenched.
Congrats, Dennis!
Our dear friend and colleague, Dennis Labayen, retired from his official capacity with Outreach at the end of last week, after serving for more than 36 years.
Buffa-low, Sell High
A buffalo-nanza of sustainable revenue streams for one of Outreach's favorite world-changers.
Malachite Artisans Going Green
For once, art and commerce make a great team.
Sharon the Wealth
An entrepreneur endeavors to provide good, as well as gifts.
A Sparkling Debut in Nepal
Replacing dirty water with a clear solution.
Aim High, Sell ‘llo
How to save a life, using only your wits and a water buffalo.
From the CEO: A New Generation of Hope
Once more, with feeling.
Struttin Their Stuff
Besides keeping the good going in their own backyards, the Topeka Community of Christ congregation has participated in annual fundraisers like CROP Walks.
Open House at Outreach Event Space!
Outreach is, by virtue of our focus on accountability and teamwork, a transparent organization. To truly embody this principle, we recently flung open the doors to our new Outreach Event Space in KCs Crossroads
Empowered: Outreach’s Community Partners
Speaking em-truth to empowerment.
5 Ways to Fight Poverty
Count one on each finger, then make a fist!
Clementina Threads the Needle
When it comes to inspirational stories from our communities, it is hard to find one more affecting than Clementina’s journey.
Mamy Happy Returns
A mother puts food on her table, and the tables of children throughtout her community.
Continuing Education
What it takes, and what it means, to rebuild a school in Haiti.
Meet Antonio
When Antonio first began to attend Outreach-facilitated meetings in his community in the Philippines, he did so with an eye toward resolving his own personal problems.
Meet Chev
For the first few years of her life, Chev's family collected their supply of potable water from an uncovered, unfiltered communal well. The reliability of the water’s source was countered by the ongoing uncertainty of its safety.
Meet Augustin
Since 1994, Augustin has worked as Outreach’s in-country representative in Haiti, overseeing the effectiveness and efficiency of all the moving parts that comprise our work there.
Meet Kalima
First, Kalima found her voice, and then everyone began to listen.
Meet Aurelia
Every day, Aurelia and her husband Norberto have one job: Support their family. It’s a humble goal made ambitious by the number of seats around their dinner table — seven children, and two sets of in-laws with no other sources of income.
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