The Learning Village is a community development resource center where children and adults, women and men can discover and develop their natural talents to free themselves from the bondages of poverty, disease, and harmful cultural traditions.

We are committed to creating sustainability through investment.  But primarily, The Learning Village is about investing in people:

• Children who are willing to walk three to four hours every day, five days a week, to get an education.
• Women who trek through mud and rain to learn job skills so that they can support their children and improve the quality of life for their families.
• Community leaders who endeavor to break the pattern of bondage through harmful traditions such as child abductions, forced marriages and female genital mutilations.
• Elderly men and women who experience the joy of reading and writing for the first time.
• Volunteers and supporters who are inspired to reach out across cultures, religions and geographic boundaries to help people from whom they expect nothing in return.

The Learning Village’s capacity-building MODEL consists of three interdependent programs:  Education, Health Services and Training, and Micro-enterprise.  We believe that the best way to manage poverty is through a multi-faceted, sustained, cumulative approach.

 Our MISSION is to enhance the community by reducing poverty, facilitating healthful living, and creating opportunities and hope.

Our STRATEGY is to emphasize and harness the community's assets, capacities and abilities rather than its massive needs, deficiencies and problems.  By focusing on and utilizing "what we have" rather than "what we lack," individuals are empowered and productivity is stimulated.