This question has two important answers. One, CLI programs are focused on individual empowerment and building local participation in solutions to hunger and generational poverty. We give a hand up, not a hand-out. Two, our extensive deployment of renewable energy solutions sets our work apart and makes it far more effective. Renewable energy allows CLI to serve areas previously considered unreachable. We build wind and solar systems that produce reliable, cost-effective power in communities that cannot be reached by the national grid, making facilities like state-of-the-art hospitals possible.