‘A child centered community program of Help a Child is sustainable when the community is able to continuously provide for children needs after phase-out of the project. Community mechanisms are functioning well and knowledge, skills and practices of community members are continuously adapting to the changing context and thereby contributing to community transformation and child-wellbeing. In a sustainable project there is attention for the changing complex context, how to be stewards of God’s creation, local ownership, inclusive participation, self-reliance and ability to link and lobby.’
In our Sustainability Guidelines, this definition of sustainability is unpacked into smaller pieces below in the chapter Help a Child’s sustainability principles to further explain what Help a Child means with these.