Community Integrated Educational Development Agency (CIEDA)- Unity for prosperity. Empowering communities for the future
The goal of Community Integrated Educational Development Agency (CIEDA) is to establish a development program whose purpose is to produce people of strong spiritual, mental , physical and moral character to work with the sick and needy. This is accomplished through the training of local people as Community Development Educators.
The CIEDA will in turn serve their neighbors by teaching disease prevention, health promotion, sustainable development, spiritual development and mental development in a christian way. CIEDA includes water purification, sanitation, agriculture, nutrition, maternal and child care, home care and prevention of disease, christian schooling as well as how to live a life that cares about and assists our neighbors. The intent of a CIEDA program is to raise up local nationals as volunteers who will be models and share the truths they have learned with their neighbors in the home setting. The program is designed to go to the people, being transferable, multipliable, and ongoing after the training team leaves the area. Community development is approached from a moral and christian perspective, one which commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Therefore, if we love one another, we will truly be concerned with the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. We want to help people live a more meaningful, abundant life. If people are to reach out to their neighbors, they must be willing to do good to their neighbor and see their neighbors as having ultimate worth. To facilitate changed behavior, a modification in knowledge and attitudes needs to take place. This involves how we view ourselves and relate to our neighbors. Therefore, teaching human values is included in the training to foster a cooperative approach of all people in the community. Teachings in the Holy Books tell us we are to give food and drink to those in need, take in strangers, clothe the naked, visit the sick and those in prisons. We are called to serve the whole needs of a person. This involves dealing with health needs,educational needs, spiritual needs and whole being of a person and training others.