Founder Alessandro Pereira | Founded 2000 | |
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Focus “Training individuals to influence their society towards increased dignity and peace.” Location Vancouver, Washington , United States Area served Central Asia
North America
South America Method Training, Empowerment, education and service. Key people Alessandro Pereira, Chief Executive Officer
Timothy J. Wright, Executive Director | ||
The Omega International Associates (Omega) is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to promoting peace.
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About
Omega International Associates is an Non-Governmental Humanitarian American-Brazilian organization registered with the Governments of the United States Of America, Federative Republic of Brazil Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of Tajikistan. Omega International, a U.S. 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization based in the United States, functions as a resource-raising entity that fundraises for various humanitarian projects around the world with a current focus in Central Asia.
Omega International provides training and infrastructure programs to help transform people and nations to values peace and security.
Projects have been funded primarily by individual donors. Omega International’s educational and skills development programs serve the least privileged peoples in the most remote regions of Central Asia including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
For centuries, teachers in Central Asian cultures have been highly respected and valued, wielding considerable influence in their communities. Women have traditionally been neither well-educated nor equipped to impact local economies. The equipping of diverse societal groups with the ability to communicate effectively in, and to contribute intelligently to, familial, communal, and national interactions, OI has proven to be an important means to the enhancement of the stability of this critical region of the world.
In Afghanistan, Omega International has trained thousands youth and teachers. Omega International has equipped schools in Afghanistan with libraries and teacher training curricula.
Omega International working to establish training centers throughout Asia with starting with the first in Dushanbe, Tajikistan called "The Launch". Each location is designed to be a self-sustaining social enterprise project creating empowerment centers. The project name was derived from a key Omega International objective, which is to prepare people and nations to be “launched” into new opportunities, ventures and businesses as skilled workers and entrepreneurs in their home countries.
The Launch
The Launch Training Centers offer empowerment training in Educational, Conversational and Market Place Language, Tourism and Hospitality, Soccer Coaching and Business Entrepreneurship to people by equipping them with new skills.
The Launch training centers are social enterprise projects. Once a project is financially sustainable, Omega International uses any profits from operations to provide grants, microcredits and microloans to promote new opportunities, and ventures helping people throughout the region.
The Launch concept includes multiple approaches to address complex needs. The project provides targeted (age and gender), tuition-based empowerment programs including:
Omega International brings individuals from across Central Asian nations and around the world to participate and share in The Launch. The training programs are designed to provide people with the skills and knowledge necessary to start their own businesses in their homelands and is key to providing hope to the people of this region and helps repatriate displaced peoples.
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