What’s In Your Hands?

Voices of Hope from the Five & Two Network

In a world weary of top-down charity, a new and empowering approach to community development is bringing hope, peace, and dignity. In this new globe-spanning video, you will hear firsthand stories from leaders in Congo, Colombia, India, Iraq, and beyond—who are reimagining development through the lens of local vision and resources. In raw and personal interviews, these leaders reflect on the deep pain in their communities but then also describe hopeful and sustainable transformation that is happening from the inside out.

What if fighting poverty doesn’t start with money?





Take a radical approach to fighting poverty that begins entirely

with local vision and resources.





 

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

 
STORIES
PODCAST - Jamie Munday interviews cofounder of the Asset Based Community Development Institute, John McKnight
PODCAST - Jamie Munday interviews cofounder of the Asset Based Community Development Institute, John McKnight

Want to better understand what we do? Listen to Five & Two’s Interview with ABCD Institute co-founder Jon McKnight on the Tamarack Institute Podcast.

ARTICLE - “A Radical Reorientation of Mission from the Inside Out”
ARTICLE - “A Radical Reorientation of Mission from the Inside Out”

In this month’s issue of Faith Today, Five & Two director Jamie Munday wrote about a necessary fundamental shift in the direction of missions.

No Money; No Problem! How one poor community came together to sustain their local school
No Money; No Problem! How one poor community came together to sustain their local school

One woman in Burundi never lost hope after funding for a school dried up. In fact, the failed funding left the community in a better place.

Goats in Burundi
Goats in Burundi

Here is a little piece about how one community is applying the principles of CCD to lift themselves out of poverty.

Golden GUNGU!
Golden GUNGU!

The Centre de Sante la Charité is a health centre in the rural town of Gungu that serves over 15,000 inhabitants. The health of the general population is worrisome…

The ABCD unConference
The ABCD unConference

Hosted by global asset and strengths-based practitioners from around the world, with over 48 hours of rolling time events, this virtual (un)Conference will engage global groups with all levels of formal and informal experience to hold space and facilitate conversations about the questions that have been keeping you up at night about assets and strengths-based action.

Life Saving Volunteers in Nepal
Life Saving Volunteers in Nepal

We recently caught up with our network member, Jaya Thapa, from Rescue Network Nepal (RNN). RNN is a powerful example of the impact of community volunteers. It is difficult for poor and remote communities to access proper health care in Nepal…

CCD Building Blocks-It’s a Matter of ‘Principles’
CCD Building Blocks-It’s a Matter of ‘Principles’

Although Community-Centred Development -or ABCD -is known for its innovative and practical community development process, all of its methodologies and practices are built upon these time honoured foundational principles.

Jamie’s Tamarack Institute Interview
Jamie’s Tamarack Institute Interview

Our Executive Director, Jamie Munday was recently interviewed alongside renowned community organizer John McKnight, co-founder of the Asset Based Community Development Institute.

Money is a Last Resort
Money is a Last Resort

During a recent meeting, one of our partners made an interesting statement that resonated with all of us on the call. One of our partners said: ‘money is the last resort when it comes to community development’. We all paused for a moment…

 
Our Five&Two Network leader, Wendy @katsz__ , is planning to facilitate Community-Centred Development learning with KIDS using the medium of ART. We realized how necessary it was to create a kid friendly version of our principles as a tool for l
“I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai Here’s to my fellow Five&Two sisters who every day are raising their voices to transform their communities from the inside-out! You insp
In the Tsakholo Community, this group of committed residents visited a local school where they gave out sanaitary parcels to boys and girls. Five&Two network member Khotso Mokitimi said - “They contributed a little penny but it made a huge
“When you’ve seen one community, you’ve only seen one community. In each community we passed, I saw strengths that made them unique from every other - joyfulness, art, farming, hospitality, hip-hop dance, special physical landmarks

“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