Ipourlife Pour Life

Global lifestrengths program targets young adults in and around kore, ethiopia. The global lifestrengths program is a year-long, positive youth development program that seeks to end the cycle of extreme poverty and social isolation in kore. We use a "hand up" approach to help participants in kore lift themselves out of poverty through technical business management training, intense monitoring, and the provision of startup capital. Global lifestrengths has three main program components: economic empowerment, urban agriculture, and a production center. Integrated into each of these approaches is a leadership development pathway to elevate the participants in our programs as leaders in the kore community. 2023 was a difficult year for our global lifestrengths program due to the covid-19 pandemic. By year end, however, the program had served a number of young adults in and around kore, ethiopia and began a reintegration into the community and recruitment activities for young adult participants .

Lifestrengths: I Pour Life created lifestrengths, a scalable and aggressive development system for at-risk youth. Socially isolated youth who are seasoned in the foster care and judicial systems or are living in generational poverty need consistent lifecoaching to break the patterns of government assistance to which they have become accustomed. By addressing critical discrepancies in their lives through a strengths-based coaching approach, youth are able to develop positive behaviors and make choices that change the trajectory of their lives. Lifestrengths youth are nominated from the foster care and judicial systems, as well as local high schools and alternative schools. Upon entering lifestrengths, youth are paired with an on-staff lifecoach with whom they meet in person weekly. Over twelve months, lifecoaches build relationships with youth and guide them through the I Pour life-developed lifestrengths curriculum, which focuses on development in identity, education, finances, and independence.

I Pour Life's other program services include services related to convoy of hope, gc arpa, nap, voca, and yop.