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HI Community Center Model

The HI Community Center is a concrete manifestation of the flame of compassion the Institute seeks to share with those who are most in need. It has been designed as an integrated hub for a range of rural empowerment projects, all supporting one goal—to fight poverty, illiteracy, and inequality. The four pillars of a HI Community Center are education, healthcare, vocational training, and sustainable micro-enterprise.

Taken collectively, these rural empowerment projects form a toolbox of flexible solutions tailored to the specific needs of each community. By combining vocational training with sustainable micro-enterprise, we offer integrated training and job creation. Launching sustainable micro-enterprises under the auspices of the Community Center enables the Center to achieve self-sufficiency within just a few years. Target rural empowerment projects for each category include:

Education

• Primary and secondary schools for children, especially those who have fallen outside the traditional safety net of family and society.
• Educational scholarship programs to support children's education.
• Public libraries and community reading programs.
  
  

Healthcare

• Himalayan Institute Total Health Centers pioneering holistic, preventive health solutions, including herbal and homeopathic formulations tailored for rural health needs.
• Health clinic and dispensary services offering public health programs including health counseling, hygiene, diet, and nutrition.

Vocational Training

• Sacred Link Jewelry vocational training and internship.
• Advanced training in carpentry, construction, and related vocations.
• Energy Farming training programs in sustainable agriculture, land management and green energy.
• Total Health Center consultants training program.
• Training in micro-business management and the HI Community Cooperative model.

Sustainable Micro-Enterprise

• Provision of micro-finance support by the Institute to support community micro-enterprises.
• Energy Farming projects promoting cultivation of a range of medicinal, aromatic, and energy crops with local and global marketability.
• Organizing and supporting HI Community Cooperatives to produce and market agricultural and locally manufactured products.
• Sacred Link Jewelry micro-enterprises promoting local jewelry creation and sales.
• Total Health Centers launched by Total Health Center consultants to offer dispensary and public health education services.

Piecemeal solutions can only serve as a stopgap, and can’t adequately address the myriad of intertwined social, economic, and environmental issues that challenge rural communities today. What is required is a holistic, multidisciplinary, spiritually-grounded solution, enabling the rural masses to harness and unfold their latent potential, and act as a catalyst for change in their own communities. On a practical level, it means empowerment instead of aid, providing knowledge and the means to put that knowledge into practice.

The HI Community Center in Cameroon, West Africa is the Institute’s flagship rural empowerment project in Africa. It serves as a model for the HI Community Centers spreading around the world.