Lighting the path's mission is to alleviate poverty by developing and implementing empowerment programs. We are offering marginalized populations an education, training, skills and supplies to start their own small business and earn an income to improve their own standard of living.

Our vision is to empower people and see them flourish and live out their full, God-given potential a

Goal One: Empowering those living in poverty with self esteem, skills, education and support to build self reliance and improve their own lives.

Goal Two: We are looking to expand our services to regional marginalized populations. We are working on implementing programs to serve refugees, immigrants and any marginalized people in our area.

Goal Three: We have completed our school building in West Africa and are preparing to start technical classes for young women and girls which will give them skills to support themselves and their families

The leadership has attended virtual conferences and masterclasses to develop strategies and better understand the changing ways of offering services this year, especially due to covid and the adaptations needing to be made to continue working with those we are trying to serve.

We began utilizing more virtual communication. Since we were unable to hold classes or group events, we began using a one on one mentorship model to offer our services. This was trial and error and we continued to work on how to adapt and change our efforts to an online platform which we will continue to perfect and modify until it is working well and providing what is needed. We developed a system to contact and stay in communication with our international workers on the ground in West Africa. This is a challenge which we do not have control over, but must find a way to navigate what is in place at this time and we were successful at doing this.