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History |
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| July,
2004 |
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ILDI founded in response to the many opportunities in international
Development. |
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| ILDI
was founded by several like-minded individuals, including those
who still serve in managerial and directorial positions in the
organization. ILDI was established in order to provide an outlet
for leadership training and development in nations where such
ideas were desperately lacking. |
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| 2005 |
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ILDI’s first projects were started in the nation of Sierra
Leone |
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Leone is a nation which continues to need significant rebuilding
of its leadership base due to the extended conflict that nation
experienced in the 1990’s. ILDI’s programs in Sierra
Leone started with a local medical clinic serving the community
in the nation’s second largest city, Bo. New Harvest Medical
Center, operated in partnership with New Harvest Development
Office, provides free preventive care, reduced cost dental and
medical procedures and obstetrical services. |
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| 2006 |
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ILDI helps New Harvest Medical Center expand to offering mobile
health clinics in five villages per month |
| ILDI
sends two business teams to provide targeted training for local
business and community leaders in ethics, character and leadership
and basic management. |
| ILDI
sends a medical team to assist with mobile clinic outreaches
and provide targeted training for staff of New Harvest Medical
Center. |
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heart of ILDI is to serve nations, such as Sierra Leone. We
seek to provide the rudimentary building blocks of a strong
society through imparting the ideals of ethical, capable and
prepared leadership to a growing future middle class. |
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| 2007 |
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ILDI and New Harvest Development Office to offer microcredit
program in six urban and rural locations in Sierra Leone |
| ILDI
and New Harvest Medical Center to expand mobile clinic services
to 20 remote villages per month (from 5). |
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and a local South African non-profit prepare to launch a school
for community development training in the Cape Town region in
2008. |
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| ILDI’s
programs seek to model sustainable development theories by training
local leaders to address the issues of their communities. |
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technology and skills training programs are urgently needed
in order to “jump-start” local nonprofits’
capability to expand their projects and services and effectively
meet the complicated needs of their communities. Many developing
nations not only lack a sizeable leadership base, but also the
means of obtaining that base: successful indigenous training
programs. |
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problems of the poor nations of the world are too significant
to wait the years or decades necessary for “on-the-job
training” to have its affect. As a result, ILDI is launching
the Institute for Community Development in
South Africa in partnership with a local South African nonprofit
organization to provide concentrated training for local nonprofit
leaders in planning, implementing and evaluating community development
programs |
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