What if fighting poverty doesn’t start with money?





Take a radical approach to fighting poverty that begins entirely

with local vision and resources.





 

2023 Annual Report

Together we have helped leaders transform communities from the inside out.

Our mission is to activate leadership to transform communities from the inside-out.

At Five & Two, relationship is at the core. We begin with local leadership, vision and initiative. We seek to empower leadership teams who are working with a particular community, and walk with them through the ups and downs of the development journey. In so doing, we recognize our own need for restoration and walk alongside the poor in a spirit of humility and mutuality. 

 
 
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DISCOVER

We guide community leadership as they walk with communities through a period of empowering community self-reflection. As people come together to identify and map their local assets - physical, natural, social, financial, spiritual - they grow in dignity and hope for the future.

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CONNECT

As communities connect their strengths, gifts and passions with one another as a whole, they begin to see opportunities for community building.

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MOBILIZE

Now it is time to take action. Digging a well, planting a crop, or just cleaning the neighbourhood.... Each of these are small victories that over time, build the social capital necessary for long-term sustainability. 

Stories

 
 

“Every community is already sustainable, at least to some degree, or it wouldn’t exist. It’s our role to discover the ways God has empowered a community to sustain itself, and to cultivate those things. Almost always, ideas and methods that emerge from this kind of collaboration are better than anything we could have brought from the outside.”

— Jonathan Wiles