There's more to poverty than meets the eye.
Building transformative poverty alleviation ministries that help without hurting
Poverty alleviation isn't about giving people more stuff.
We often make the mistake of defining poverty as the lack of material goods. But this assumes that consumption is the goal of life.
When you talk to people in poverty, you discover that poverty goes much deeper.
Poverty is actually about broken relationships.
When sin entered the world, it damaged our relationship with God, ourself, others, and all creation.
When people in poverty define poverty, these broken relationships are the focus.
A way forward
At the Chalmers Center, we work with church and nonprofit teams to help them create effective poverty allevation ministries that are rooted in God's story of change and based on community development best practices and design thinking tools.