Southern Institute For Appropriate Technology

South america (ecuador program) - we lead work teams from churches and universities to assist our ecuadorian sifat graduate pastors and community leaders in building facilities that allow their churches to provide after-school programs for needy children in and around quito. We also provide medical work teams to cover health monitoring and medical care, primarily for at-risk women and children in marginalized communities. In addition, we fund small sustainable projects for our ecuadorian sifat graduates.

Costa rica - the purpose of sifat's costa rican campus is to make training in community development and appropriate techonlogies for basic human needs available. Our target audience is church and community leaders of very poor areas in latin america and beyond who cannot get visas to our training center in the u.s. Sifat costa rica demonstrates solutions to basic human needs such as more nutritious food, clean water, housing, health, micro enterprises and more. We not only teach community development using appropriate technologies as tools, but we are doing community development in the community of which we are a part. We can take our students from impoverished countries on a walk through our costa rican neighborhood and introduce them to costa ricans who incorporate the principles we teach on their two-to-three acre farms with thier basic needs met. They can see as well as hear our classes, and then practice these technologies until they are equipped to go home and teach their own people. Also a big part is learning to work together as a community for the benefit of all.