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At ICSEE collaborating with the people on an ongoing basis is central to successful organizing for life improvement. We don't just drop resources and leave.

A good idea is useful, but it's not everything. Through ongoing collaborations, ideas develop into real and practical elements of a new life for the people. This promotes genuine sustainability and empowerment. And through this process, we see new leaders emerging.

Read more about leadership below. Meet the new ICSEE Chief Assistant and read about the new overnight hostel facilities at Cypress Hill that just housed leadership training participants.

Thank you for all the support that makes this work possible.

To be successful, organizations need to be living, learning organisms. Good organizations challenge assumptions and habits on a regular basis.

 

Over the last few years, ICSEE has helped to organize four women’s groups. Each has resources and income-generating businesses.

And most importantly, each has leaders who do a great job, even in situations that they have never anticipated or previously experienced.

Facing leadership challenges

 

The leadership teams of all four organizations frequently face challenges that are brand new to them.

The Monduli Pastoralist Women’s Organization (MPWO ) with 220 members, are the expert stoves installers from 20 villages. They have a business buying and fattening bulls that they then sell.

The three widow’s organizations in Mitmoja , Nanja, and Longido have goat businesses, fattening 75 goats each. The goats will soon be sold for profit.

 

Each leadership team must face the income and profit distribution decisions inherent in this work. There are tough decisions coming up as the entire community faces the possibility of drought once again. And all leaders need to prepare to handle disappointment when expectations turn out not to have been realistic.