About Us

OUR VISION

We exist, to empower people with little access to options, through opportunities that can enable them to take their own steps forward. Our goal is to provide transitional pathways for people. We can’t provide all the answers, just opportunities for people to answer questions for themselves.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe that when you combine knowledge with opportunity and give people the chance to advocate for themselves, that they will. We believe that this is the most effective way to create long-term change. What we are providing is empowerment— for each person to pursue success and to define what that opportunity means, for themselves.

WHAT WE DO

Through our Apprenticeship Programs and Community Sustainability Projects, we work towards expanding community and individual potential. We believe that by increasing practical abilities and vocational opportunities, people can find success through expanded options. We provide job/skills/business training, knowledge, and new methods of sustainable food production— to people that are eager to learn new skills, enhance existing ones and develop more efficient ways to use their resources.

Our work promotes a foundational community connection and encourages individuals to move away from a lifestyle of dependency and apathy, into one of effort and integrity. We expand vocational abilities, build confidence and guide young people towards opportunities to use their skills and talents to live sustainably. We work alongside communities, to model what it is to work hard and achieve success.

Our programs teach problem-solving, innovation, and excellence. Our goal is for each apprentice to complete their program, with a certificate and more importantly with marketable vocational skills and knowledge that empowers them to keep improving their skills and potential. We set expectations and the levels of their practical training high, to help them exceed industry norms and to create in-demand levels of performance. We build a foundation of integrity and strong work ethics that create responsible workers, trust-worthy employees and business owners, and a climate of positive community contributors. We believe that empowering young people with vocational skills, will provide doorways that enable them to accomplish financial sustainability. Our apprentices leave programs with a variety of trade skills, practical experience, and the trade tools to begin their own small businesses, or to be an asset to any employer.

Skilled trades-persons with integrity, are a valuable staple for the positive growth and productivity of any community. Our programs encourage individual success, while also providing a skilled workforce and improved industry standards, to developing countries. Our programs and methods open the minds of young people and communities to their own potential. We increase the levels of skill and knowledge within their grasp— to promote new levels of personal success. We provide enhanced access to tangible skills, experience in applying those skills, the marketability of providing high-quality work, and build firm foundations of integrity, creating a very powerful and practical hope.