The document summarizes the mission, vision, core values, and project highlights of the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD). FSD achieves community-driven goals through asset-based international development projects focused on economic development, health, appropriate technology, environmental sustainability, human rights, and youth development in regions throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Key projects discussed provide economic opportunities through jobs training and small business support, increase access to healthcare and education, and empower communities.

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2. MISSION
FSD achieves community-driven goals through asset-based
development and international exchange in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America.

3. VISION
FSD envisions a world where all people have the opportunity
and capacity to direct economic, social, and environmental
resources toward sustainable outcomes that improve their
lives and communities.

4. CORE VALUES
Start With Assets, Not Problems
Motivate Community Ownership
Generate Enduring Results and Impact
Focus On The Site Teams
Build Capacity
Be A Bridge
Change Perspectives
Promote Reciprocity

5. PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

6. Economic Development in Salta, Argentina
FSD Partner Organization:
Fundación Tejiendo Sueños
Caroline Yarborough, FSD intern,
worked with Fundación Tejiendo Sueños
to address unemployment in the
community by forming a permanent
marketplace for entrepreneurs to sell
their goods. Capacity building
workshops were also created to
strengthen financial management and
cooperation among local
entrepreneurs.

7. Health in Cochabamba, Bolivia
FSD Partner Organization:
Instituto para el Desarollo Humano
Instituto para el Desarollo Humano
recognized a connection between lack
of HIV diagnosis and transmission to
others. With the support of FSD, they
developed an HIV Rapid Test
Diagnosis Program to increase the
availability of confidential screening
services and mobilize at-risk groups
to obtain free-of-charge testing and
counseling.

8. Economic Development in Tola, Nicaragua
FSD Partner Organization:
The Association for Sustainable
Development of Limon 2
“Getting Down to Beesinuss” is a
project funded by FSD and
facilitated by intern, Jacqueline
Bruns, to expand the organization’s
beekeeping business and generate
profit. Critical to this initiative is also
the development of a training
program for community members in
the honey producing process.

9. Appropriate Technology in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
FSD Partner Organization:
MASINFA
FSD funded a grant for Intern Allison
Smith and MASINFA to address both
malnutrition and unemployment.
Community members mobilized to
construct 10 community garden beds
with training in bio-intensive
gardening for improved access to
nutritional foods and generating
income by growing and selling their
own crops.

10. Environmental Sustainability in Tola, Nicaragua
FSD Partner Organization:
Colegio Nancimi
In an effort to introduce a new habit
of recycling, FSD intern Daniela Lopez
and Colegio Nancimi were awarded an
FSD grant to develop a project to
provide training to youth in
developing skills to turn “trash” into
handicrafts. This, in turn, also serves
as a source for youth to generate
income.

11. Economic Development in Salta, Argentina
FSD Partner Organization:
Fundación Impulsar
The “Sustainable Salta” project
funded by FSD with Intern Sabrina
Kerin supports sustainable
entrepreneurs to grow their
businesses while strengthening
their social and environmental
impact through the creation of a
professional network, educational
workshops, and a formal
certification process.

12. Human Rights in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
FSD Partner Organization:
Alternativa
As a result of extreme poverty in
Nicaragua, many families depend on
child labor for their survival. FSD
supports Alternativa’s programs to
curb such dependency by providing
small loans and workshops on
financial management to provide
families with the skills and tools
necessary to acquire and manage
income.

13. Youth Development in Cochabamba, Bolivia
FSD Partner Organization:
Aldeas Infantiles SOS
The “Libros for Literacy” program
was funded by FSD and facilitated by
intern Jane Finocharo to provide
access to education for orphaned
and abandoned children. Aldeas
Infantiles SOS constructed a small
library at their center supplemented
by books from a local seller.

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