Our Mission

To teach literacy,  provide leadership development, encourage self-reliance, empower women, increase social awareness, and encourage people.

To create self-supporting communities with access to education, health care, and technology.

Schools

    1. Quality equipped public schools; primary, high school, and college.
    2. Schools of technology i.e. building trades and entrepreneurship.
    3. Library development via Books for Africa, St. Paul, MN, providing books and computers for teaching in local communities.
    4. Set up low cost WIFI extended networks to villages for education and communications.

This is a picture of girls graduating from nursing school.

Agricultural

  1. Agricultural development of sustainable small and large scale farming.
  2. Cattle herd development and improve farming skills and selection of medicines and treatments to increase meat and dairy production.
  3. Farming and drying of various crops including rice, corn, peas, and other vegetables and grains.

Here Stephen and Kris are taking Ethiopian Ambassadors through a research field at Iowa State University in the fall of 2018.

Medical

  1. Hospitals and localized village satellite medical clinics
  2.  Neen tree development for medicines (over 400)
  3. Produce bone marrow powders, nutraceuticals, vitamin and health products.

Here is a picture of Stephen delivering malaria medicine.

Housing & Industry

  1. Affordable and sustainable housing that will define and shape neighborhoods and communities using new techniques of “Rammed Earth”, Simpoe Geodesic, Brick (made on site) and Concrete columns.
  2. Commercial Real Estate development and Business Parks with services that are inter-related providing employment.
  3. Consumer building materials business outlet for housing materials, steel and foam sandwich insulated roofing to be made on site, Ethiopia, or imported.

Refugee housing is shown in picture.

Transportation & Roads

  1. Design and construction of roads to connect rural villages.
  2. Bridges connecting South Sudan and Ethiopia.