The Empowerment Model

Public attention to world hunger and abject poverty is growing, as is a debate about foreign aid. While most of the debate has focused on the amount of aid, there has also been growing controversy about the effectiveness of aid. FG's mission is to educate our generation about the effective models of aid.

We believe that conventional top-down planning is not the answer, it is part of the problem. Top-down, service-delivery approaches are not only too inefficient and inflexible to make a dent in world hunger, they actually undermine the most important resource - the creativity and self-reliance of hungry people themselves.

FG seeks to educate American youth about the potential and ability of our fellow human beings born into impoverished conditions. In this way we are creating a generation that values people born into poverty as equal contributors to society and is thus eager to empower them to not only end their own hunger, but to be full participants in our global community.

To read more about the Empowerment Model of Development, click here.