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Did you know that two out of every three people on the planet live in rural villages? The people of these villages face limited employment opportunity and little access to life resources. Poverty is a crushing weight for the vast majority as they look in vain for opportunity that continually eludes their grasp.
Village Earth: A New Approach to Old Problems

In the 50’s there was the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe. In the 60’s, The Peace Corps touched lives across the globe. These programs showed what dedicated external resources can do. Now is the time to empower people to meet their own needs, a time that calls for suitable access to the information resources of a new era.

Village Earth is a program for the new millennium. It is based on evidence that lack of access to proper resources is the block to building a better life and that poverty is a symptom rather than the cause.

Village Earth joins the forces of individuals and organizations, using the unique gifts of each to provide access to essential resources and to provide training to villages across the globe.

Village Earth empowers people to achieve and sustain their hopes and dreams through their own efforts and actions.

Despite 50 years of foreign aid, most of the
world’s people still live in poverty.
The Village Earth Approach
Begins and Ends with Participation

Participation is the secret to human motivation. With the Village Earth approach, men, women, youth and elders are encouraged to play significant roles in improving their lives in partnership with both local and foreign organizations. This is enabled through:

Training residents of all ages to assume responsible positions in their communities
Using scientific and local knowledge to generate environmentally responsible, socially sustainable technologies appropriate for the particular infrastructure and geography of each village project.
Working with public agencies to adapt resources to local needs.
Encouraging private sector involvement in generating jobs, and creating lending market investment opportunity.
Providing a global communication network to access sustainable resources.

New Enterprises can provide income for village residents.
A local fisherman brings in his catch from a newly developed fish farm in Bangladesh.

Our Mission

To carry on sustainable human resource development around the globe in harmony with the local environment and culture.
To help eliminate the erosive despair of poverty
To end the need for non sustainable dependant aid, through self reliant access to sustainable resources.
To implement an entrepreneurial approach to sustainable village-based development
To ensure the environmentally safe & responsible development of the third and fourth world
To help realize that the basic resources required to create and sustain our lives belong to all human beings.

Members involved in the Village Earth program draw on over 40 years of development experience. Their contributions include: Assistance in establishing The Peace Corps. Establishment of the Asian Institute of Technology Village and community development projects, Directorship of agricultural services for USAID Community Development Training and Planning Irrigation Management Water and waste water development International commercial transactions and legal analysis National and international governmental relations assignments based in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Middle East, Asia, Africa, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the USA.

Visit our website at www.villageearth.org or call 1-800-648-8043