DOMESTIC PROJECTS

• Tumaini Learning Center, 1996-2000

TLC was central to a community project located in the O’Fallon Place Apartment community. Residents of this public housing area were assisted with job training and placement, after-school tutoring, and a variety of community action opportunities

• Center For Faith Action and Response, 1993-2023

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

• The Organization for the Promotion of Rwandan Communities (PROCOM Rwanda)
• Developing a Strategic Plan for Impacting Selected Neighborhoods, Madrid, Spain ( in partnership with the World Mission Program of the Free Methodist Church) 2004
• Three Country Assessment of the Effects of 10 Years of Ethnic Violence on the Batwa of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (in partnership with the Peacebuilding, Healing, and Reconciliation Programme), 2004
• Atelier de consultation sur la participation sociale des Batwa de la Région des Grande Lacs (Rwanda, Burundi, et R.D.C.) gave keynote address ‘A Sociological Framework for Understanding Social Participation” 2004
• Conducted a seven community assessment on the current situation of Batwa, 2004
• Peacebuilding, Healing, and Reconciliation Program evaluation planned for May-July 2003
• Hope Africa University, developed and taught course—Social Context for Development—for multi level, multi cultural class of students; currently developing research project on the role of the church and community in peace building and reconciliation, 2002
• Village Business Training, 1998-2002, Uganda Project was funded by a family foundation to provide basic business development in two Ugandan villages. One hundred business people were selected based upon their development of a business plan detailing a strategy to improve an existing family business. Each strategy was supported with funding up to $50. Ugandan project staff provided mentoring with support from US based volunteers. Eighty-five of the 100 business were still operating in 2002.

• Bega kwa Bega, developed and supported village economic project in Mpiryi District, Uganda.
• This project launched and mentored 100 income-generating projects with 85 still in operation 4 years into the project. The projected also trained 53 teachers (17 schools) impacting 282 children of whom 123 are orphans, conducted major de-worming project for more than 1000 children in two villages, 1995-2002
• Musema (Burundi) Community Water Project, captured mountain springs and piped water seven miles to serve two schools, a hospital, a market, and community of 4,000