Our Organisation

INTEGRITY Care is a non government aid organisation, based in Australia but working with partners around the world. The concept of partnership is that each member of the partnership brings to the table certain attributes to achieve a particular goal. Each partner in our network is a vital part to our success.

At INTEGRITY Care we aim to build capacity at every level, bringing experience, resources and personal presence to achieve the improvement of people’s lives. We focus generally on longer term solutions rather than short term “fixes”, although sometimes we become involved because of a short term urgent need.

INTEGRITY Care values all our partners giving full regard to our cultural differences. We cannot achieve the goals alone and in fact absolutely rely on one another. Each partner’s contribution is therefore highly valued as we see how peoples of different cultures, languages and locations can work together.

INTEGRITY Care adopts a holistic approach to eliminating poverty, as it affects people at three levels.

1. Mind/heart – Holding to the strong belief that they are beyond help and can see no way to help themselves out of their circumstances.
2. Self-concept/emotions – Feeling that they are inferior in their design and prospects as a person. Being downcast in their outlook on the world and how they will interact with it.
3. Physical/health. Having insufficient of the practical needs (food, shelter, clothing, security) required to live and grow in health, safety and comfort.

By changing people we can change communities & nations. So, we want to facilitate holistic change in people’s worlds and do so sustainably. This requires that we not only help them physically, but also teach them to think and act in a manner that will lead to sustainable, positive change because their decisions and conduct is based on right principles.

Our 4 levels of engagement are:

1. Integrity Care understands that people can only reach their maximum potential when they are free from theirs cares of basic survival. For this reason our fundamental level of care (the ‘Hand-out program), provides for peoples emergency relief from suffering needs. Everybody needs a handout at some stage in his or her life, but to lock people into this as a lifestyle creates dependency, hopelessness and lack of personal dignity. So we progress people as quickly as is sensible to the stage where they can contribute to their own care.

2. After their survival needs are met, people want to do something to help themselves. Abraham Lincoln once said, “We cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should be doing for themselves.”

For this reason, we major on connecting people’s innate gifts and abilities with how they make a living through small business. We call this Micro-Enterprise Development (MED). We do this by a combination of small development loans and business training.

3. Our end-in-mind is not to create capitalists, but responsible, values-driven leaders. So our training combines technical skills with leadership skills that require participants to live values-centred lives that will influence others into right living. Our leadership training extends beyond business entrepreneurs to community and government leaders, by seminars, distance education and online delivery.

4. For real community transformation to be effected we facilitate macro-business opportunities as they arise. From this larger pool of wealth, communities are empowered to identify and drive their own development agenda.

Through our specialist learning arm, the ‘HIGH Ground’ Centre, Integrity Care offers the following programs for developing ‘entrepreneurs in life’. All our programs are designed to support, train and motivate people involved in any form of career, business or organisational development.