The quality and pace of any country’s socio-economic development is largely a reflection of the education system of that particular country. To achieve the mission of the LIJIF, each student, participant and/or client will be equipped with basic empowerment knowledge and skills necessary for daily living, adjustment to societal, economic and political changes, good physical and mental health, and legal immigration issues integrated with peaceful living ethics.

The answer to these serious problems is Life in Jesus International Foundation. LIJIF offers solutions that help heal wounds, and begin reaching into the un-empowered at-risk and participant/client population that are quietly desperate to have services but cannot get them. They seek wellness, counseling and empowerment through improved self-esteem, self-worth, and self-efficacy; however, fear and hopelessness are overwhelming among this population and they become powerless in dealing with all their aggregate issues.

LIJIF serves our participants and clients through outreach programs in a competent manner, as we help prepare them to become more empowered during the course of addressing their needs. We need your support to make that happen. We want to collaborate with you in playing a leadership role by responding to this need and providing our services through empowering support. Compassion, integrity, trust, commitment, and holistic healing set our program apart from the rest.

The proposed program will target the at-risk, afflicted population in Uganda and all at-risk population in Third World Nations. LIJIF is making this group “state of emergency” top priority status for its program services.

LIJIF will meet all international program service requirements, and the center will directly and/or indirectly provide access to comprehensive social services. The center’s focus will be on empowerment, counseling and health/wellness issues through assessment, treatment, and management. Our outreach approach will integrate this population with not only each other but with society, at large.

LIJIF’s goals and objectives are to facilitate program services and counseling which will target the following RFP task areas:

LIFE IN JESUS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’S DIRECT SERVICES:

• Primary Empowerment and Wellness
• Nutritional Services
• Counseling and Mental Health
• HIV/AIDS & other disease screening
• Immigration and Legal Services
• Outreach & education
• Transportation & interpretation
• Referrals

The community based non-profit will be serving a designated globally underserved area and population. LIJIF will provide comprehensive program services to persons in all stages of the life cycle.

1) OUTREACH WORKER, SUPERVISOR

JOB SUMMARY: Incumbent in this position performs operational duties related to preparing informational materials for various wellness and empowerment social services programs and encouraging participant involvement. Responsibilities include providing lead direction to assigned staff, completing client/participant check-in, verifying eligibility, and issuing transportation provisions.

2) PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATOR

Incumbent in this position performs duties related to providing global and international public health education programs. Responsibilities include developing global health education materials; conducting at-risk population service needs assessments; and teaching empowerment classes to raise community knowledge, enhance awareness of public issues, and improve community health.

3) REGISTERED NURSE

Provides skilled nursing care to the patient in his/her community location through holistic assessment, planning, and education according to patient need. Demonstrates sound knowledge and is proficient with high tech skills.

4) SOCIAL SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Incumbent in this position performs defined duties related to providing empowering social service programs. Responsibilities include promoting LIJIF services; greeting and directing clients/participants to the appropriate program/services; providing information regarding programs/services; and receiving, monitoring, compiling, researching, providing LLS criteria and regulated reporting.

5) ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

Incumbent in this class performs process duties related to coordinating a wide range of administrative functions in support of our global and international Empowerment Center’s operations that cross functional lines, such as personnel, budget, finance, purchasing, and information and records management. Responsibilities include providing analysis, advice, and recommendations on assigned functional issues; representing assigned programs at meetings and conferences; and coordinating the implementation of special projects, budgets, and grants.

6) COMMUNICATIONS & OUTREACH COORDINATOR

In conjunction with the Executive Director, plan, coordinate, oversee and conduct promotion and outreach activities for Life in Jesus International Foundation, Inc. ensuring a high degree of professionalism, integrity and accuracy in all activities, including print materials and presentations. Provides Executive Director with regular updates on project status, ongoing activities, and other issues for each program. Operates on multiple projects without daily oversight.

7) CONTROLLER

Management and supervision of the Finance & Administration Department. Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information, the overall logistical operation and well-being of the LIJIF Central Office. Assist COO as assigned.

KEY ACTION STEPS

The quality and pace of any country’s wellness, education, income or health care issues are tied to its socio-economic development, and is largely a reflection of that particular country. To achieve the mission of LIJIF, each person in need of our services will be equipped with our programs and service outreach.

The stakeholders of the proposed Uganda Empowerment Center’s construction (capital campaign) phase and implementation of the program services are as follows:

• Targeted at-risk and needy population within Uganda
• Targeted at-risk and needy population within Third World Nations
• The support staff
• The administrative staff
• The Board of Directors of LIJIF
• Regional and International business members
• LIJIF’s consulting team
• National and International Governmental officials

STRATEGIC EXPECTED OUTCOMES

The building and construction capital campaign of LIJIF, integrated with our program services, will serve a multi-fold benefit.

• They will help the at-risk targeted population in social, health and support services needed through our programs.
• The at-risk targeted populations will learn that there are inherent benefits in the integration of all for national and international enhancement.
• LIJIF will bring this at-risk population into the bigger national and international picture.

This will help create and maintain a social support mechanism through which we can become a community that is bound to the bigger, international world.

Our Capital Building Campaign will include but is not limited to:

1. Supplying the needed equipment and resources to clear the land and build, construct, and/or rehabilitate a building/lot for LIJIF.

2. Life in Jesus International Foundation’s Future Plans - We intend to build onto and/or rehabilitate an existing or new construction building with a full-service Empowerment Center with room for growth and development as the funds become available. We are committed to raising funds that will enable us to build as we need, provide support services as requested, and as we have been called upon to do.

LIJIF has discovered our vision and mission as one that enables the village, the community, the nation and targets the international population with a better life and hope for the future.

II. Meet with international and national community leaders to:

A. Assess community desire and willingness to collaborate in work.
B. Sign a building and construction contract detailing the responsibilities of all parties involved.
C. Provide volunteer oversight team for the building and construction issues.
D. Outreach within the international and national community and delineate need for volunteers, funding, and donations; begin the grant process.
E. Develop milestone goal and measuring system to determine timeline for construction finalization and community empowerment program service implementation.

Throughout the social service programs and outreach an emphasis has been put on the development of effective communication skills in local languages; as well as English, appreciation of cultural diversity, acceptance of variety in beliefs and social values, and a sense of national identity.

In totality, what evolves through our outreach programs, are immigration law interpretation center, our social services and our empowerment center becomes the bedrock of a new international community. Based on the principles of Christian Faith, the Life In Jesus International Foundation, Inc’s targeted populations experience faith, knowledge of self and give inspiration to become their best. Their best inspires those around them to be their best and so on and so on. This facilitation of our unique and specialized programs help all become who they are intended to be.

Life In Jesus International Foundation, Inc has identified the four major challenges that stand on the way for operational development and we have addressed all four of them. They are as follows:

1) Local Government

LIJIF has obtained the necessary licenses and approvals from the local Ugandan government to work in the region.

2) Differences in faith/religion

LIJIF has recognized and is effectively addressing this barrier, by focusing on the needs of the community in an inter-religious fashion rather than addressing the needs of the Christian religious populations.

3) Cultural and language barriers

LIJIF’S operational style is designed in a way that cultural barriers are not stumbling blocks. Unlike similar other organizations, Life In Jesus International Foundation, Inc will utilize empowering mentors, trainees, from the same culture, enabling the organization to communicate on the same plane.

4) Criminal element

The organization is aware of outside forces, which are not legal, that work against similar programs. There are perpetrators in the cleaner water, medical help, migration advice and support to all people and mostly children in the world industry, drug mafia etc, whose recruiting and breeding grounds are unsanitary living conditions, and Illiterate communities. The organization overcomes the challenge by recruiting and training people from the same places instead of sending outsiders to work in such conditions. The organization focus on the problem where it initiates and breeds, in trying to eradicate the root cause which ultimately delivers the strongest cure.

DATA, DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH, EVALUATION AND STRATEGY

Truth is, faith might not change the picture, but it will come alongside and hold you up and, most importantly, carry you to the end, because the end for those who believe is only the beginning. - Unknown

RFP DESIGNATED PRE-CRITERA FOR TASK AREA SCOPE OF WORK DELIVERABLES

LIJIF will meet all RFP/grant Scope of Work task deliverables for the underlying empowerment support program demand. We will do this first by building and/or rehabilitation of an existing facility through a capital construction campaign, which will help us provide a central location for our international program services for this targeted and at-risk population. We will do this while building an international political consensus, employing innovative land-use, offering efficient and effective program services, and using planned timeline concepts.

The key elements of our strategy include the following:

• Anticipating and planning for designated and targeted RFP areas through our capital construction campaign; outreach Uganda Empowerment Center, social services and advocacy program development and growth in a timely, orderly, and predictable manner.
• Establishing long-term comprehensive plans for each program deliverable, which targets our international at-risk village and community, and makes available an ample supply of the services and programs needed for real time, real solutions?
• LIJIF will allow for innovative empowerment program planning techniques to be used to help increase our outreach within the community for purposes of education and advocacy, ongoing growth, and development of our future programs.
• LIJIF understands that perhaps the most important role at every level is achieving the applied programs which promote empowerment, wellness, health, and international village/community outreach within their targeted and at-risk populations. These missions and goals are balanced to meet the White House’s Global Health and Human Service’s Initiative Programs and Priorities.