Partners in Sustainable Development International

• Focuses on people - not programs
• Offers a hand up instead of a hand out
• Creates individual economic development plans
• Monitors each family's progress bi-weekly
• Evaluates all families every three years
• Graduates most families out of poverty in 10 years
• Stays focused on the very poorest families

The PSDI Model is based on respect for the poor and a partnership between those who lack the resources to help themselves, and generous donors who are willing to help supply the resources necessary for the poor to implement their own economic development uplift from poverty.