ICDI Makes Plans to Expand Operations
Posted by Liz Cutler Gates on December 18, 2009
Jim Hocking (pictured above), founder and director of Integrated Community Development International (ICDI) updated friends and donors this morning at breakfast in Warsaw, Ind. In addition to reporting on the varied programs of the organization, Jim announced that ICDI is making plans to move into Chad and Congo, and in order to do that, is developing a new base of operations at Grimari in the Central African Republic.
Jim also introduced Nanga Kaye, a Chadian who has just joined the ICDI staff as agricultural specialist. An agronomy graduate of the University of Nebraska, Kaye is responsible for helping the Africans learn to effectively grow nutritious food.
“We work with about 100 Central Africans — we’ve poured our lives into them,” Hocking said. “We’ve seen the impact they’ve made on thousands of their countrymen,” he added, explaining that the goal of ICDI is to help the Africans help themselves. “We’ve also watched God bring people to himself through our programs.”
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