Students wave Rotary donated Lifestaws in the air!
How We Develop Projects
We choose a school or clinic that shows leadership and potential in both spirit and ownership. We work with rural and under served areas of the world to address the issues of serving children with the basic needs of survival and to access each property to be sure that human dignity is addressed in each new school or clinic that is chosen. Many times our hubs are located in areas of the world where most people would not think to travel. Unpaved roads, no electric, lack of running water and no form of communication leaves these areas forgotten. So our forming a Green Community Hub puts them on a map.
We visit the proposed area and spend one week to access the needs and potential.
We propose Life straws to those areas that are in a state of emergency where children are drinking from the mud or unsanitary conditions.
As we start a trusting relationships. deliver Life straws to the property and set up plans to install water,
we meet leaders, parents, hold gathering to inform community.
We form a task force that will meet with or without How Global being there to move forward on plans.
The community is expected to work along with us on digging trenches, create food gardens and extend pipes on the property as we add sinks and sources of sanitation. This causes an instant ray of hope to the entire community and each time we return a sense of family is created and each property has grown in progress of sustainability and also in spirit. Teachers, children and community leaders will walk miles just to attend a workshop that will help them improve their community.
WHO DO WE WORK WITH
We are working with many partnerships (view our partners) to assist the UN with the millennium goals that charter and state that all children have the right to food and water security and that by 2015 all children's needs of food and water should be met. Our sponsorship support comes from companies near and far. We also have schools that are fundraising for us. Having young children, teens and college students involved in our projects makes it exciting as we have all ages, races and groups involved. Private individuals are assisting us as they are pleased to have trusting and worthy projects where they can see the progress taking place and know where there funds are being spent. They also can have direct contact and visit the sites if they wish. Grants will be written on a large scale so that we can approach foundations that wish to address the global issues of those children who are without food and water security. We know that our that our Green Community Hub concept works and look for partners to join our team and expand our projects.
Our main mission is to bring water and food gardens to the many orphans and children who are suffering from poverty. Sometimes a school or clinic has water but is in a state of emergency because of lack of food, medicine or school supplies. We evaluate the needs and respond. Especially to those who suffer the aftermath of disaster.
We address sanitation issues as well as HIV prevention.
In most of our areas of work, there are no local hospitals and homes are used as clinics to care for adults and children.
We also enjoy and depend on working with student interns who thrive on research and development
and as a part of our strategy we chose each GCH by their willingness to help us set up internship programs. These interns help us to raise funds, help to apply their knowledge and also act as project managers who help keep the projects moving forward.
WHO MANAGES THE PROPERTIES
Rachael Paulson travels to each property to decide if their application to become a Green Community Hub will be accepted. In some cases a college intern will be sent to the property to do the research.
Each Green Community Hub has a local leader who is held responsible for management and communication. Meet our hub leaders by visiting our project site.
Once a GCH has finished all stages of development then interns can spend up to one year helping to manage projects.
Each property has it's own task force of professionals, teachers and community members
WHO DOES THE DRILLING
We work with a team in South Africa who are ready and willing on call to bring their trucks to our schools and clinics even though they are out in rural areas with unpaved roads and terrible conditions. We have a great team and they have been working with us since 2005.
WHO BUILDS THE FOOD GARDENS AND SEEDLING PROGRAMS
We have invented a home made green house shade cover that allows for each school or clinic to start a seedling program. Our team of workers is called upon to start the food gardens once water is installed. We also use the help of interns and volunteers to both donate seeds and assist the community members and students that create a food garden that will not only feed the children at lunch time but also be used to feed the orphans of the community. We also seek to extend pipes or to find pumps that can help
bring water to the gardens making it easier for the women of the villages to tend them. Presently, even when a borehole and pump are placed outside a school for community use, large heavy buckets are used to fill up and carry to the community food garden.