by Louise Joachimowski
Photo by Brian Yen
Teaching essential life skills through a supportive, community-based approach, ICM unleashes unfulfilled potential in impoverished communities. We partner with local leaders from 2,500 slums to empower more than 100,000 people every year to fight the bondage of poverty. After participating in our transforming values, health and livelihood training program, our families experience a 42% reduction in reported physical abuse, a 26% reduction in serious illness and a 33% increase in household income. ICM provides help, inspires hope, and creates change.
About the Author
Louise Joachimowski
With a passion for storytelling, a love for the poor, and sharp eye for analysis, Louise is ICM’s Hong Kong Executive Director. Since 2010, Louise has served ICM in Bacolod City and Hong Kong, as well as traveling the world to share ICM’s work. Spending literally thousands of hours alongside the ultra-poor and hearing their stories, she loves nothing more than sharing the stories of heroism and hope that ICM participants have to tell, whether through music, video, writing or photography.
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