Achieving Sustainable
Development Goals Together

Programs That Inspire Change and Help Achieve Sustainable Development

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Achieving Sustainable
Development Goals Together

Programs That Inspire Change and Help Achieve Sustainable Development

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Our assets-based development style promotes dignity and helps communities realize the change they want to see.

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Changing Lives

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Community partnerships that promote locally driven development.

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Promoting Peace

Ethical leadership programs that bridge cultural divides.

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Community Building

Creating opportunities for service and collaboration.

For more than ten years, Serve To LEAD's multifaceted, relational approach to development has built lives and livelihoods through community-driven change.

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Asheville

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Sri Lanka

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The Dominican Republic

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Haiti

Taking Action to Reach the Goals!

Serve To LEAD is taking action to reach the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Our core programs include:

Workforce Development: We employ youth from low-income communities and provide them with financial literacy classes, resume building workshops, and experiences that help them expand social networks and gain career clarity.

Quality Education: Along with local and global partners, we support quality education programs that advance reading, math, skills building, and social-emotional care for youth ages 3 - 25.

Leadership and Service Programs: Serve To LEAD engages youth globally in ethical leadership development programs that promote cross-cultural peace building, global education, and localized service.

Global Development: Serve To LEAD works to provide clean water and sanitation, proper housing, nutrition and healthcare, education and employment for low-income communities in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Sri Lanka.

Guided by our core values of Love, Equity, Altruism, and Dignity, we are transforming people and the planet as we live out our mission to address personal, social and material poverty through education and community development in our local and global community. 

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Our Core Values

Guided by our values of love, equity, altruism, and dignity, we are transforming both people and the planet. Through education and ethical leadership programs, we strive to reduce personal, social, and material poverty in both our local and global communities. We are dedicated to making a meaningful impact and ensuring a brighter future for all.

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What Our Community Says

I know what it’s like to be homeless, to live in cars and hotels and know how much it hurts. I am happy that I can serve others and do something good for children who are facing the same things I have.

This experience has not only opened my eyes but opened my heart. I have never felt God's love so strong. My time spent in service to others has allowed me to see and feel what God's love really looks like.

Throughout the time I was in the Dominican Republic I grew inspired by the unique and generous people that surrounded us day to day. I went to help others but in reality they helped me grow as an individual.

Through Serve To LEAD I realized that it’s so important to empower people, to walk with them, and to help everyone create positive change and believe in themselves.