THE PURPOSE OF THE INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

(IN 100 WORDS OR LESS.)

To break loose human initiative where it is being strangled and thereby restore dignity where it was lost.

To work with peoples in the most desperate of conditions, where individuals and whole communities have given up.

To catalyze a new hope and a new energy, permitting rapid social and economic development.

To within two years leave behind a community which is self­confident, a leadership which is self­reliant and an economy which is self­sustaining.

To take this profound demonstration of human potential and undertake its massive replication in the surrounding region.

And to repeat this process simultaneously throughout the entire world.