purpose statement
We build sustainable, God-inspired, life-giving hope.
MISSION
Our mission is to build hope by listening to our partner communities and helping them achieve their most important objectives.
vision
Our vision is for impoverished communities to transform into empowered and generous communities propelled by the God-inspired hope that the best is yet to come.
Our Six Pillars
Our six pillars are: infrastructure, economy, health, education, community and leadership. We believe these six areas underpin a thriving community, so we look to work with each community to create strategic plans for these pillars. We then look for partners and paths to implement the plans we come up with together.
OUR FOUNDER'S STORY
The moments that change our lives rarely announce themselves. This was true for our founder, Riley Fuller, as he stepped off a bus in rural Honduras in 2007. To say his arrival was unlikely would be an understatement. He arrived in Honduras on a relief trip with his family, forced to go because he’d wrecked his dad’s car when he skipped the trip the year before. Riley is open about where he was personally:
“Before that first trip to Honduras, I knew nothing about putting myself in someone else’s shoes. I was blind and selfish, I had no idea how much struggle and heartache happened throughout the world, and I didn’t know how much human potential was being wasted. I also didn’t know how much we could do to change it if we worked together.”
Stepping off that bus, Riley saw a house using a plastic tarp to keep rain out. Printed on the tarp were the words “Delta Trash.” That moment changed everything for Riley. Here was a family facing not only food deprivation, dirty water, high local crime, education ending at 6th grade, and an income of less than $2 per day—they also lived in a house literally labeling them “trash.” Riley says, “None of it made sense to me, and I became furious. I had no idea why I had won the birth lottery, but I knew I had to use what I’d been given to help people who were suffering.”
