The Nehemiah Project is the over-arching project for all LEAMIS efforts. The goal of the Nehemiah Project is to help local churches rebuild their communities through spiritual and sustainable development projects. When this project is fully implemented a community, such as an orphanage, is largely self-sustainable. In addition, it provides job training.
Team members use their skills and hobbies to provide workshops in areas that can be developed into a cottage industry.
Workshops include training in water purification and improved sanitation methods, using alternative fuels for cooking, sewing, cooking, arts and crafts, making candles and soap, animal husbandry, and garden techniques.
An emphasis on appropriate technology helps the community use materials already available and combines that with the knowledge needed to build and/or use those materials in a way that will enhance people’s quality of life.
Appropriate technology covers a broad spectrum and includes things such as solar food dehydrators and cookers, manually powered lathes, drill presses, and jig saws, hydraulic ram pumps, and making safe drinking water through solar distillation.
All aspects of this project are designed to meet expressed needs by the host church and addresses one’s relationship and responsibility to God, to others, one’s community, and a biblical approach for stewardship of the earth.