CommunityFriends

We created Community Friends to form lasting and meaningful relationships and create transformative programs with deep impact. But we didn’t start by dreaming up interventions and policy goals. Instead, we provided simple assistance to the community’s most vulnerable. We provided free meals to the children at school. Then, after years of developing trust with community members and slowly evolving acclimatization to local conditions, we approached the community itself and sought their guidance. We worked from the bottom up.

Personal, long term, highly familiar, bottom up: this describes our philosophy. Add to this simple formulation our commitment connecting together people, the generous with the needy, to cross pollinate and to maintain open-handedness with all we learn and a complete picture of our work emerges.