Our Vision

MGK Beginnings…

MGK started in 2006 with a dream to help identify and connect local resources to the people of the Niassa highlands. It began with a small group of friends searching for a way to make a difference in their area and has since grown to over 13 families working and supported by the resource center of MGK. Our vision has always been to facilitate creative development among rural villages using the available technologies and resources that are renewable and local. We believe there is nothing greater than the ability to create life. This vision necessitates a journey toward hope and justice in the lives of anyone who comes in contact with MGK. We also believe community development begins in the development of the family and the unique causes of injustice and struggle as well as a family’s distinct hope for it’s future.  Because of this we treat poverty not with sweeping solutions but with listening ears and desiring to journey with them and better ourselves together.

How MGK works…

When a community is selected, MGK spends the first six weeks educating about hygiene and sanitation then partners with the community to build EcoSan latrines, water filtration systems, and medicinal gardens for water-borne illnesses. For the next four weeks, the community is educated about malaria, receives bed nets and learns about the cultivation and benefits of Artemisia Annua as a curative of the disease. During this phase, the community also receives micro-loans in order to empower the ideas that each member has shared towards education, construction or business. Finally, the last phase is spent educating the group about nutrition through seed production, animal husbandry and appropriate cooking technologies. This unit highlights organic local food production, nutritive meals for growing children using Moringa powder, and safe, efficient cooking methods.

MGK measures it’s success when a family with whom it is working…

1. Realizes the importance of understanding and following the teachings of Jesus

2. Lives in peace with its neighbors and with other members of the community

3. Has access to potable water through the use of a deep well or uses one of the various ways to purify their water

4. Uses a sanitary latrine

5. The entire family sleeps under a mosquito bed net

6. Knows and uses local herbal medicines to cure their family of common illnesses

7. Children in the family above the age of 6 attend school frequently

8. The family has ways to earn sufficient money and has other sources of income like small farms and orchards

9. Has access to 3 square meals a day. There is never a problem with hunger throughout the year.