Basic Needs Projects
The communities we support lack most of the basic services necessary for its residents to live fair and productive lives. Part of Roots of Development’s mission is to help the community groups it partners with complete development projects that address their most basic needs. Under the direction of the general population, these community groups identify their priorities and outline how they would like to address them. Roots of Development’s role is to first help them identify the resources they already have around them and then to help connect them to the resources still needed to complete their project. The priorities identified by the communities we work with most often involve potable water facilities, public latrines, housing, increased access to appropriate health care, etc.
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Initiatives for Independence
While it is important to support projects that address basic needs, these projects will not improve, at least not directly, the economic situation in the area. Initiatives for Independence are projects that either involve the creation of a community business or the provisioning of services, or facilities, that build the capacity of the local community group. They create jobs, stimulate the local economy, and bring in project revenue. The community groups we work with use these funds not to profit a single individual or small group of residents, but as a resource for the whole community. The profits from these businesses are used to finance other basic needs projects in the community and the necessary operational expenses of the community group, without having to depend on Roots of Development for all of its funding.
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