CULINKE believes in shared responsibility and partnership and adopts an open and participatory model in its work with local communities and other NGOs. It works with all organisations and communities wishing to share information and resources, and is dedicated to providing top quality service in all her core business areas. CULINKE is also dedicated to promoting the development of an international network that will integrate and link available information resources in an effective way to promote the use of good practice and experiences in poverty reduction.

The founding of CULINKE is a response to contemporary social conditions reinforced by three World Defined Development meetings, the June 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, which came up with a global action plan for sustainable development commonly known as Agenda 21 today, the Millennium Development Goals-MDGs and New Partnership for Africa’s Development– NEPAD. 

As humanity unites to confront the dehumanising state of poverty through the MDGs and by subscribing to the other aspirations of the Global Development Goals CULINKE unites Humanity against Poverty, providing an opportunity to all well meaning people, organisations and corporations to play a role in poverty reduction through donations, volunteering or Corporate Social Responsibility.

 

Since founding CULINKE has remained a community-based and driven organisation ascribing to the principles of Community Driven Development.  Focused and strategic, guided in it’s objects by the MDGs, to be relevant as a Community Driven Development player CULINKE is a proactive organisation working with other like-minded organisations and communities to assess and intervene in their identified needs.  CULINKE’s raison d'être is relief of poverty. It is possible.