COMMUNITY – CENTRIC
IMPACT – FOCUSED
SUSTAINABLE – PROGRAMS
COMMUNITY- CENTRIC
IMPACT- FOCUSED
SUSTAINABLE- PROGRAMS
In many poverty-stricken communities, it’s not enough to have the ‘right’ answer to a problem. You can’t simply ask the question, define the issue and arrive at the solution. More often than not, it’s how much support you have that determines whether you succeed.
We believe that the best and most sustainable solutions come from building capacity within a community. 4Lyf connects with people who really understand their society, its mechanisms and the issues that need to be addressed. This allows us to build effective and sustainable solutions in partnership with the real heroes — the locals who are going to exist in that community long after a project wraps up.
Shifting the way aid is delivered to communities in need
IDENTIFY
We identify local social entrepreneurs (LSEs) who have the potential to do great things for their community via our network of supporters.
DEVELOP
We develop the LSEs through our integrated delivery framework, which combines best practice change, project and benefits management to ensure impacts of our programs on the community are not only sustainable beyond the project but directly aligned with global sustainable development goals and easily measured.
SUPPORT
We continue to mentor and support the LSEs via a network of advocates throughout every stage of their program, including connecting them with funding, volunteers, mentors, best practices, reporting etc.
SCALE
We provide a digital marketplace which connects LSEs/communities and donors (financial/non-financial). Our financial donors include private individuals, microfinance arrangements and traditional grant-based funding.
Community Snapshot
Communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are diverse and complex, with around 40 percent falling below the poverty line. The evidence of this struggle is visible on a number of fronts — a crippling health infrastructure which saw the reemergence of polio and leprosy in 2018, the ongoing battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, an overcrowded public education system with high dropout levels, and low adult literacy rates (<65%).
A different way of delivering aid
In a land where transparency between all stakeholders involved in the good fight continues to be a work in progress, the delivery of basic services in the eyes of local PNGeans remains inadequate.
