Approach: Phase 5
INSTITUTIONAL GRADUATION
Objective: Create and inspire self-sufficiency and community leadership while reducing organization’s direct aid.
Length: 6 months
Core Elements:
- Create post graduation work plan including farm and business plan
- Conduct exit interviews that will highlight strengths and weaknesses of program and participant
- Organizational / work evaluation by families
Benchmarks for evaluation (examples):
Satisfactory completion of work plan and five-year goals- Short and long-term work plans for post-graduation
- Commitment to sustainable farming and livelihoods


"I volunteered with SHI in Honduras many years ago. It was an amazingly inspiring trip, not just because we were able to work side by side with the families we were there to support, but I was able to see firsthand exactly how SHI operates and why its techniques and approach are so successful. SHI is a charity well worth supporting because its mission isn't charity at all -- it's empowerment." 


