According to our strategic plan poverty can be reduced through the followings:quality education, health care, water and sanitation/hygiene, human rights, democracy/decentralization, women & child protection, agriculture & disaster risk management, biodiversity & environmental protection and economic security.
1. Quality Education
Imaging a world without schools and colleges! We live in an ev
er changing world. New technologies keep coming up and if you don’t want to be left behind, you must keep up with the world which is moving fast. Without education it will be impossible to reduce poverty. Education is essential in creating change in a child’s life.
2. Health Care Is Essential
Illiteracy often breeds ignorance and ignorance may prove to be dangerous when it come to healthcare. By building the capacity of more communities health centers and healthcare workers create a positive step towards reducing poverty. Quality medical equipment along with good medicine are important.
3. Water and Sanitation/Hygiene
Access to improved water and sanitation facilities is important for ever human being. By establishing effective water and sanitation control in every community give a clear signal for poverty reduction . Economic Empowerment can be achieved greatly through the process of agriculture, and social development. Agriculture growth can reduce poverty directly, by raising farm incomes and indirectly, through generating employment and reducing food prices. Social development can reduce poverty through the promotion of equal access to fair and equitable provision of services in human settlements, government at the appropriate level, including local authorities.
4. Human Rights
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, play of residence, s*x, nationality or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other states. We all are equally entitled to our human right without discrimination. (PORIN) is a local nongovernmental and nonprofit organization in Liberia with the aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs), people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Poverty Reduction Initiative provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through:
• Conduct advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk, including emergency support for those in immediate danger;
• training and resource materials on security and protection, including digital security;
• rest, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress;
• Opportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders within target areas.
• an emergency phone line communication for human rights defenders operating in vulnerable areas,
PORIN promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Our vision is to defense the human rights defenders everywhere so that they can enjoy the freedom and security to undertake their legitimate activities. The mission of PORIN is to protect, defend, support, and act for and with human rights defenders whose lives and health are at risk because of their peaceful and legitimate activities.
5. Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of all species on earth. It is the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes, and the terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems of which they are a part. Biodiversity is both essential for our existence and intrinsically valuable in its own right. This is because biodiversity provides the fundamental building blocks for the many goods and services a healthy environment provides. These include things that are fundamental to our health, like clean air, fresh water and food products, as well as the many other products such as timber and fiber. The main threats to our biodiversity are:
• loss, fragmentation and degradation of habitat
• the spread of invasive species
• unsustainable use of natural resources
• climate change
• inappropriate fire regimes
• changes to the aquatic environment and water flows
Measure Taking
• Reducing emission
• Clever water security
• Clean land
Our aim is to protect the most fundamental things that nature provides to all of us: our food, our fresh water, our livelihoods and a stable climate.
7. Women and child Protection
Violence against women and children is all too prevalent in the world. It crosses cultures, economic status and ethnicity. We work with families and communities to support women and vulnerable children at each stage of their development and we provide knowledge and skills so that they can participate in society to their fullest.
8. Disaster risk Management
When a hazard event (such as a drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake or tsunami – among others) strikes a community; triggering the loss of or harm to, life and the destruction or damage of infrastructure, it highlights the fact that the society and its assets are vulnerable, i.e. susceptible to the impacts of hazard events. Poverty Reduction Initiative is working along with its partners and the government of Liberia to enhance disaster preparedness for effective response.
9. Agriculture
