Bridges to Prosperity USA     

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Ideals

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The most powerful thing we share with others less fortunate is knowledge. We do so by delivering practical knowledge that encourages the poor to lift themselves from poverty on their own. This empowerment of the poor is accomplished through our Community Bridge Building programs, which demonstrate how knowledge and training can fuel positive change in their lives.

Community Bridge Building is an incredibly successful way to teach this lesson. For bridges allow people to cross geographical barriers like rivers/gorges/mountains, thereby allowing access to schools, hospitals and markets. It is no wonder that the poor consider bridges "miracles". But the true miracle is not the bridge itself, but rather the fundamental change in the hopes and dreams of those that we teach to build it.

Bridges to Prosperity...changing lives one bridge at a time

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Vision

Reduce poverty by directly improving the lives of over 2,000,000 rural poor by 2010, & 20,000,000 by 2020.

Take our mission to 20 countries, & turn our program over to locals in 15 of those 20 countries.

Train 200 local lead engineers and 20 partners to independently build footbridges at rate of 50 bridges per year by 2010, & 200 bridges per year by 2020.

Be the top worldwide source and depository of free on-line information for sustainable standardized footbridge methods and designs.

Offer hundreds of volunteer field opportunities and mobilize scores of university based design and construction teams.

Engage corporations in our Survivor Africa, university, and
other participatory programs.

Open the hearts and minds of those we engage.

open the hearts and minds of those we engage
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Mission Statement. Bridges To Prosperity is a volunteer based charity that seeks to empower poor African, Asian and South American rural communities through footbridge building, thereby advancing personal responsibility, community public works, economic prosperity, and access to schools, clinics, jobs, and markets.

 

 

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