Assists refugees and disaster survivors. Provides training, information, seeds to agricultural workers and missionaries working with small farmers in over 130 countries. Educates and rehabilitates incurably blind. Provides local health worker training, technology transfer, eye surgery, equipment, medicine. Health, water, food, shelter, education and self-reliance programs in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, United States.
Local partnerships help people meet emergency and long-term needs.
Ninety-three percent of revenues are spent on programs. Provides leadership training, housing improvement, local crafts, agriculture and industry development. This organization has administrative and fundraising expenses above 25 percent, and is taking the steps necessary to bring these expenses below the 25 percent level.