Have you ever wondered what exactly we mean when we talk about becoming a self-sustaining ministry?
As Esther explained in the video, what we have seen over the years is that often times international ministries that rely on foreign aid are unable to keep going if there comes a point in which the international partner is unable to keep providing the resourcing.
Everything the Santiago Partnership has built in partnership in Ecuador has had the goal that in the future we will be able to “get out of the way” and that each ministry project - the Clinic, the Home for At Risk Children, etc - will be able to be sustained by funds from the social enterprises that we are building together for that purpose.
Self-Sustainability, in the case of the ministries like the ones in Cayambe, is to be fully economically supported by enterprises, businesses, and funds that are not administered by foreign entities, but rather managed by the project in Ecuador. In this way, the project itself in Cayambe can work to self-sustain its own ministries.
It’s with this methodology that the Santiago Partnership, in collaboration with our local partner FACE, is working toward the self-sustainability of the project in Cayambe.
