{"id":363,"date":"2019-06-29T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dcius.org\/new\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:27:53","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dcius.org\/?page_id=363","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"363\" class=\"elementor elementor-363\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-22162f4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"22162f4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a696541\" data-id=\"a696541\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20e4db4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20e4db4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/dcius\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/12-768x558-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff Team<\/figcaption><\/figure><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Development Companions International (DCI) is a registered non-profit organization (NGO) which works with various community partners including churches and other faith-based groups, recently mostly in rural Africa. We are motivated by our faith; in following Christ we must love all our neighbors. \u00a0We challenge local ministries to show this love in action by creating and running programs which bring development and sustainability to people\u2019s lives throughout the community. \u00a0DCI currently focuses primarily on adult literacy, community health education, and leadership in a number of communities in Uganda to create solutions for development. \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We currently have adult literacy classes spread across several parts of Uganda. These classes meet several times per week, learning a comprehensive and wholistic curriculum designed to help adult learners to take charge of their own development.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DCI\u2019s health education programs include sequential school trainings for students and teachers, combined with coordinated trainings in the surrounding communities, utilizing community leaders and model households. We conduct weekly radio health talk shows in both Mbale and Kapchorwa towns, reaching hundreds of thousands in the surrounding communities, with very active listener call-in times.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last decade DCI has graduated more than 1500 adults from our literacy classes, directly transforming more than 1000 families. We have also trained many church leaders, enhancing \u00a0ministry development skills, church management and leadership, Biblical interpretation and preaching, and worship arts.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DCI works on the principle of utilizing local initiative and talent. Almost all our staff is Ugandan with hearts for serving their people.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development Companions International (DCI) is a registered non-profit organization (NGO) which works with various community partners including churches and other faith-based groups, recently mostly in rural Africa. 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