Community Development
The Foundation seeks to support ambitious transformational efforts within the community in order to address the goals listed below. We understand that successful efforts may require a multi-year timeline. In order to achieve community development, the following must be actualized within the community:
- Increase the global visibility of effective models and best practices in meeting the needs of a community in jeopardy.
- Identify and provide high quality interventions for this community.
- Strengthen partnerships and collaborative coalitions of local and/or regional agencies who represent a broad spectrum of care options and experience in comprehensive interventions.
- Support community friendly policies that emphasize family-based and community-based settings for children and families in jeopardy.
- Monitor, evaluate, and provide results of successful programs and projects.
Foundation Enfant Jesus, along with the initiation of Lamardelle community village leaders, will work in tandem to build the community through projects that have an interest in supportive efforts. One such effort would be to establish preventive measures to stabilize families and keep them intact.
The types of initiatives of greatest interest to Foundation Enfant Jesus are:
- Targeting child health and developmental programs
- Targeting educational programs
- Family support and other social services
- Training programs for individuals and groups that allow self-enhancement
We seek to participate with other grassroots organizations within the region to establish the following through promotion and support in the years to come:
- Implantation of the necessary infrastructures to promote rural development
- Job Creation
- Community leadership
- Encouragement and support of community initiatives
- Better drilling to provide clean drinking water
- Road building
- Housing Projects
- Prolongation of electricity in the region
- Building of a community sports center
- Youth groups