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Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund: A Living Memorial

MISSION:

To collaborate with Partners and Partner Organizations to develop an outreach and development agriculture ministry program that develops the practical capacities of the Burundian people and provides the practical opportunities for the indigenous people of Burundi to holistically improve and transform their lives.

Our Primary Partner Organizations are: the Free Methodist Church of Burundi (the Church), Hope Africa University (the University), Friends of Hope Africa University (Friends and Foundations for Farming (FfF).

DEVELOPMENT VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

Our Primary Development Principles are Self-determination, Self-help, Self-support, Self-management, Self-governance and Self-sustainment.

Our Related Development Principles are Self-esteem, Self-assurance, Self-confidence, Self-sufficiency, Self-reliance and Self-subsistence

CONSIDER THE REALITIES

The Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund (HMODF) was developed keeping in mind the existing realities in Burundi. The Burundian realities include being one of the poorest countries in the world; a very small, densely-populated, high birth rate country with a very young population of more than 13 million people. Burundi is an agrarian country with more than 90% of population living in rural areas as community farmers with very small, overworked, hand-cultivated plots, using low production, traditional methods. As an under-developed country, Burundi experiences tremendous poverty, famine, serious food insecurity and tremendous malnutrition; more than 50% of children under 5 years of age suffer chronic, stunting malnutrition.

WE UNDERSTAND:

  • The greatest need for development in Burundi is agriculture development
  • The greatest opportunity for development in Burundi is agriculture development

Accordingly, the HMODF gives priority to agriculture development projects; the HMODF has become a dedicated agriculture development fund. Our agriculture development projects are designed to enable, empower and support an association of poor, vulnerable women to become self-determining, self-supporting, self-managing, self-governing and self-sustaining through cultivating crops, raising livestock and microfinancing.

OUR FOCI

To continue to provide our one-time, start-up development grants for more agriculture, livestock and microfinancing development projects; ones with a self-help association of 10 poor and vulnerable women and involved in cultivating crops, raising animals and microfinancing. Our development, poverty-alleviating, life-improving projects produce significant physical health, mental health and spiritual health improvements and produce psychological, social and economical benefits for the project beneficiaries and members of their large families.

To continue to develop a collaborative Community Agriculture Extension Program ministry with national reach and national impact on agriculture productivity and, thereby, improve Burundians quality of life in all dimensions; improvement of physical health, mental health and spiritual health.

PURPOSES:

The purposes of the HMODF are (1) to keep alive the memory and service contributions of early missionaries John Wesley and Jennie (Hamilton) Haley and Burton and Dorothy (Haley) McCready and, most importantly, (2) to keep alive the legacy of outreach to and development of the indigenous people of Burundi (3) to provide one-time, start-up development grants for agriculture, livestock and microfinancing development projects and (4) to develop a collaborative community agriculture extension program.

GOALS:

  • To alleviate poverty by providing development grants for poor, vulnerable and unemployed community people in Burundi
  • To develop the capacities of the indigenous people of Burundi
  • To holistically improve the quality of life of the indigenous people of Burundi
  • To develop an ongoing collaborative Community Agriculture Extension Program

OBJECTIVES:

  1. To keep and extend the memory and legacy of reaching out and developing the indigenous people begun by John Wesley and Jennie (Hamilton) Haley and continued by Burton and Dorothy (Haley) McCready
  2. To promote and develop new agricultural, health, socio-developmental, economical ministerial initiatives of Hope Africa University students and graduates
  3. To extend and enrich the programs and influence of Hope Africa University by supporting selected outreach and development service projects
  4. To develop outreach and development projects for the indigenous people in Burundi
  5. To provide sustainable, life-improving, outreach and development projects for the indigenous people in Burundi
  6. To decrease malnutrition, decrease food insecurity, reduce hunger, decrease poor health and reduce poverty
  7. To increase agriculture productivity, increase food security, alleviate poverty and increase incomes
  8. To improve the physical health, mental health and spiritual health of the Burundian people while producing psychological, social and economic benefits

ADMINISTRATION

The Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund: A Living Memorial was established through the Free Methodist Foundation. Through the involvement of our Governing Committee, the Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund (HMODF) had maintained an association with the Free Methodist Church USA.

To ensure we serve our Mission, Goals and Objectives, the HMODF is administered and overseen by two central programs and committees: the United States Program and its Governing Committee and the Burundi Program and its Advisory Committee.

The United States Program consists of fundraising, funds distribution and fund maintenance and is overseen by the United States Governing Committee. The fundraising component is undertaken with the support and involvement the Governing Committee members and others. The HMODF Governing Committee is a relatively small committee and the Christian membership is as follows.

  • Bishop Linda Adams, Bishop, Free Methodist Church in Canada, Former Bishop, Free Methodist Church USA, Former Director, International Child Care Ministries, Free Methodist Church USA
  • Bishop David Kendall, Retired Bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America, Mid-west Conferences and Liaison to Africa
  • Rev. Emmanuel de Maleprade, Pastor, Cornerstone Community Church, Free Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Rev. Mark Van Valin, Retired Pastor, Former Director, Detroit Initiative, Mission Igniter and Former Lead Pastor, Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church
  • Dr. John McCready, Founder and Program Director, Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund, Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor on Development, Hope Africa University, Visiting Professor, Friends of Hope Africa University and Principal, Senior Consultant, Senior Researcher and Sole Proprietor, Healthy Horizons Consulting

Former Members:

  • Mr. Lloyd Ganton, Chief Executive Officer, Lloyd Ganton Retirement Centers
  • Rev. Burton Hamilton (deceased), Founding Principal, Burlington Christian Academy, Former Chair, Board of Elders, West Highland Baptist Church, Past Vice-Chair, Board of McMaster Divinity College, Past Member of Senate, McMaster Divinity College and Past Board Member for One Mission Society Canada

The Burundi Program consists of putting the outreach and development into operation; selecting and overseeing outreach and development projects. The funds are used to provide opportunities for students and graduates of Hope Africa University to design and implement development projects with the indigenous people of Burundi. The first Rector of Hope Africa University and the former Bishop for the Free Methodist Church in Burundi, Dr. Elie BUCONYORI, established a small Burundi Advisory Committee to guide the fund, set local priorities, develop local procedures, conduct calls for proposals, evaluate project proposals, recommend project grants and evaluate results. The Burundi Advisory Committee is a relatively small committee and the current membership is as follows.

  • Honorary Member: Bishop Déogratias NSHIMIYIMANA, Bishop of the Free Methodist Church of Burundi, Former Burundi Director for the African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM)
  • Mme. Susan Muchiri, Head, Department of Social Work and Community Development, Hope Africa University
  • Mme. Jacqueline Murekasenge, Lecturer, Hope Africa University, Former Head, Department of Social Work and Community Development, Hope Africa University
  • Mme. Therese Uyambaje: Coordinator of Graduate Programs, Hope Africa University
  • Rev. Dieudonne IRAMBONA, Program Director, Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund, Graduate, Hope Africa University
  • Dr. John McCready, Founder and Program Director, Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund, Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor on Development, Hope Africa University, Visting Professor, Friends of Hope Africa University and Sole Proprietor, Healthy Horizons Consulting

Former Members:

  • Mme Esperance MPAWGNIMANA, Graduate, Department of Social Work and Community Development, Hope Africa University, Former Head of Human Resources, Hope Africa University
  • Bishop Elie BUCONYORI (deceased), Former Rector of Hope Africa University and Former Bishop of the Free Methodist Church of Burundi

A promotional fundraising campaign has been developed, pursued and maintained in the United States. The campaign materials include announcements, letters and brochures. The funds are received and held by the Free Methodist Foundation in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Donations from the United States are sent to the Free Methodist Foundation. On an annual or semi-annual basis, the United States Governing Committee distributes funds provide the grants to the development projects selected and recommended by the Burundi Advisory Committee.

Any and all donations from individuals are used directly and exclusively to support outreach and development in Burundi. For communication and accountability purposes, contributors and others are kept informed through this website on the United States Program (fundraising and distributions) and the Burundi Program (projects, reports and results).