About Us
Providing those in need with opportunity, dignity, and hope so they can possess the tools for change in themselves, their family and their community.
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Our Mission
World Hope International (WHI) is a Christian relief and development organisation working with vulnerable and exploited communities to alleviate poverty, suffering, and injustice.
Organisational Goals and Objectives
Our vision is to provide those in need with opportunity, dignity, and hope so they can possess the tools for change in themselves, their family, and their community. WHI supports all people regardless of ethnicity, gender, race, or religion.
WHI uses market-based and community-driven enterprise solutions to empower, protect, and build resiliency through innovative, environmentally conscious, and transformative projects. We deliver our programming through strategic local and global partnerships to create a maximal, sustainable impact.
Core Values
WHI programmes are developed within the framework of four core values:
- Transformation: Individuals and communities are transformed into ones with dignity and wholeness through a spiritual, social, economic, and physical change.
- Sustainability: Lasting impact is realised through locally sustainable programmes.
- Empowerment: Development occurs to the extent local communities, leaders, and individuals are empowered to affect change.
- Collaboration: The means of development are demonstrated
through partnering with the local community, like-minded organisations, and individuals.
The needs present in today’s world are complex and deeply interconnected. Our programme areas complement one another and act as a comprehensive response to poverty.
ACCEPTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN OTHERS
Our Story
The roots of World Hope International (WHI) can be traced back to the vision and heart of our dynamic founder, Jo Anne Lyon. From a humble start in 1996, God has blessed Jo Anne’s journey to serve those crippled by poverty. Her hope:
To empower the poorest of the poor around the world so they can become agents of change within their communities.
What began in the back bedroom of her home, grew into a leading-edge Christian relief and development organisation, recognised by partners and governments alike as a successful service model for those in need. For more than 10 years, Jo Anne entered into war-torn regions, abandoned communities and dark pockets of the world teeming with forced labor and prostitution. She looked at the bleakness and despair and saw how she could bring glimmers of light through opportunity, dignity, and hope.
Today, WHI continues its mission as a voice for the silent, an opportunity for the oppressed, and water for those who thirst. WHI helps provide the dignity that comes from an educated mind, a healthy body, an honest day’s wage, and a safe place to heal. WHI is the one who comes alongside those gripped by poverty to offer a hand up instead of a handout.
