We have made some very strong claims. The following is an illustration of the type of development we work to foster through our programs.

The Mozambican Village:

The leaders of a small village near Chimoio, Mozambique were coached through the ABC program. The villagers had previously relied on charity because they had self-identified as poor, and believed they could do little to develop themselves.

The leaders of the village were taken through the IRI development process. After going through this process, the leaders expressed that they had a lot of knowledge and information but they understood that this knowledge belonged to someone else - and, being someone else's knowledge, they could not use it. After the program, they took ownership of this information and are using it in their planning and development programs. The village has developed projects without getting any outside funding. Examples include: pig farms, building houses for elderly in the village, building a ware house for food storage and they are now looking for investors to help them market their agricultural products. This is just one village. The leaders of this village have now taken this program to more than 30 other villages with each developing a similar result.