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MPC hosted a Roundtable attended by an over-capacity crowd of 95 on the topic: “The Great Communities Collaborative: Adapting a New Model for Sustainable Place-Based Investment.” The event was keynoted by Shelley Poticha, HUD’s Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Community Development, who shared her first-hand experience with the Great Communities Collaborative in San Francisco. Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the Bay Area are merging their resources with government entities to locate new housing developments near transit. The event, generously sponsored by S.B. Friedman & Co., also featured a panel of local experts, who discussed similar innovations taking root in the Chicago region.
Greater Newark & Jersey City LISC staff (L to R), Phillip Hoffart, Robin Brown, Petra Lee, Judith Thompson-Morris, Gerard Joab.
Dormitories enable students to attend school who would otherwise face an often prohibitively long and expensive journey to school, and therefore help to ensure education is accessible to all.
A September 06, 2022 image from the Community Development H-Town Heroes Family Night First Responder Appreciation Event at the Palace Social in Houston, TX.
Can you imagine what it would be like to grow up never knowing where you are going to spend the night?
This is Nazma Khatoon’s life. Her childhood has nothing memorable over the streets of Kolkata.
Streets are the only home Nazma knows. She has to wait until night to take bath, because there is no bathroom. She is used to the abuses and violence that people hurl at her. Sleeping on the streets at night is frightening for her, as drunken men often try to abuse the girls.
As a little girl, Nazma knew her future was uncertain. “Thoughts of future make me scary,” says Nazma.
However, she too has dreams in life. She wants to become a teacher when she grows up.
Nevertheless, without the benefits of formal education, life held nothing promising for little Nazma.
At this critical juncture, World Vision intervened in Nazma’s life. This breathed a timely breeze of hope amidst anxiety for the little girl. She was enrolled for non-formal education for a few months and then she was mainstreamed into formal education (5th std.).
Governor Phil Murphy speaks at Housing and Community Development Conference in New Brunswick on Friday, October 18, 2019 (Edwin J. Torres/ Governor’s Office)
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Here’s an example of what our hard work at community organizing has created. Carmen Velásquez, one of our neighborhood leaders, led the effort to build Alivio Medical Center to provide health care to all, regardless of income.
On land purchased from Alivio, The Resurrection Project completed construction of the $15 million Casa Morelos development, 45 units of affordable rental housing in a environmentally friendly green building featuring energy efficient appliances, geo-thermal heating systems, semi- permeable pavement on the parking areas and a green rooftop.
This site will also be home to Casa Maravilla, 73 apartment units for independent seniors, with a City of Chicago Department of Aging Golden Meal program not just limited to tenants but open to all local seniors.
district in Uttarakhand, Pauri Garhwal was facing acute shortage of drinking water due to depletion of natural sources. The shortage had left the people in the area at the mercy of water transported through gravity pipeline schemes that tapped water streams far away from the villages. With most of these water supply schemes becoming defunct due to lack of proper management and resources for repair and maintenance, the people in the villages, especially the women and the girl children were forced to walk for 2 kms to fetch potable water. The villagers even started their daily chores at midnight to stand in the queue for fetching water for their families.
While installed hand pumps tried to address the problem, the root cause of the crisis, environmental degradation, couldn’t be effectively addressed. Seeing the plight of the people, World Vision’s Pauri Area Development Programme focused on providing access to drinking water to two villages.
A low-cost, low-maintenance system that effectively pumps water from distant sources, the Solar Water pumping facility was constructed. This facilitated the even distribution of regular and clean supply of water to nearly 500 people, including the families of 64 sponsored children living in these villages.
The first of its kind, through this initiative World Vision also ensured that the health status of the people, especially children, was significantly improved. Apart from making clean drinking water accessible to more people in this remote village, the scheme also brought the community together as they worked for sustaining their own development.
Maria Cristina, una beneficiada, preparando un rico atole en una cocina pelusera durante la celebración del cierre del proyecto en Guadalupe. Las cocinas peluseras se usa como materiales combustible cascaría de café en lugar de leña, que se evita la destrucción del bosque.
Maria Cristina, a project beneficiary, preparing a delicious atole (corn drink) on a "cocinca pelusera" during the celebration of project completion in Guadalupe. Cocinas peluseras are stoves that use the dried shells/pulp of coffee beans as fuel instead of wood, which helps prevent the destruction of the forrest and uses a material that would otherwise be waste.
Border Run - a burrito truck in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand - has given Pawn a new life. The first of it's kind in the city, she started it with the help and mentorship of SIM missional business missionaries, Lauren and Steven Sauder. With her truck, Pawn has more financial independence than she could have ever imagined.