Civic Village International

Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Environment, Food, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Primary & Elementary Schools, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Civic Village International is a registered Canadian social purpose organization operating in West Africa with a mission of reducing poverty, and regional inequalities and promoting social development through community-led development. We aim to provide community toilets with sanitation, access to clean water, and renewable energy. We also aim to build low-cost homes, schools, and community health centers in impoverished urban and small rural communities using locally available materials and carbon-neutral construction processes to foster sustainable development under the force of climate change. Our organization aims to promote eco-friendly development, sustainable agriculture practices, and non-farm-based business, skills, and trade development to facilitate green social enterprises and enhance communal autonomy and community-led development. Civic Village International believes in breaking the cycle of dependency, social inequalities, and poverty by investing in West African communities and empowering them to become self-reliant and prosperous. We work with and collaborate with communities directly to provide the necessary tools to thrive through training and skills transfer to community members to turn them into individuals who have the solutions to the problems facing their communities. We believe each community is unique, and therefore tailor our poverty reduction programs to the specific social realities through a bottom-up approach where community members are the main drivers of change. This is backed by our central pillars of green building training, community farming and sustainable agriculture, skills and entrepreneurship development, education, and resource management and conservation.