What it's about

The Second reason for gathering this information is in an effort to understand people and why they do what they do. For example; Why a country may go to war with another country. What are the reasons and could solutions be found without having to go to war?

The Third reason for this project is to educate people on what people are like in different countries and to understand their needs as a people. Its is an effort to bring equality, freedom and respect for each other and respect for self. We have learned that there are two basic theories as to how we started on earth. One theory is evolution where some have evolved more than others and as such some are better than others. The other possibility is to believe in the concept of creation and as such we all came from Adam and Eve and are connected to one another.

The Fourth reason is for self preservation in understanding that we all need to get a long better on this planet if there is going to be a future not only for us as the current occupants, but our children as well. The facts are we are running out of room on this planet and the resources needed to sustain the lives of all the people on this planet. Besides all of that those that do not have to worry about starvation are becoming more and more concerned about just paying the bills and caring for their families.

We at TKOH have learned that short term and long term needs have to dealt with, but if we only focus on the short term, then the problems tend to continue. So in addition, long term changes also need to be implemented. We have come to the conclusion that there are three parts to everyone and if all three parts and not taken care of the problems will continue. With that in mind, we take a holistic standpoint in helping people in their body in dealing with a persons physical needs. Soul which deal with a persons mind in understanding why we do what we do and once an understanding is achieved provide for ways to change if a person wants to change. The third part is the realm of the spirit or the heart, which controls how a person sees or hears or how they speak of things, which controls peoples lives in what they do or who they may marry or even what they do for a living.

To meet peoples needs, we at Tkoh have four basic programs, which once understood, people pass it on to others: 

1) Practitioners or Consulting Programs: (three levels)

A) Level one deals with reducing debt and increasing income. (Several income producing programs are available in level 1).

B) Level two deals with Cognitive Restructuring, which is a study in how we see or perceive things in the mind and how to bring a different path. Two separate paths of training are offered in level two. The first is to prepare a person to work in an institution such as a hospital or prison. The other direction is in the private sector, teaching people how to succeed in life. Success or failure is something that is learned and can be unlearned if a person wants to relearn.

C) The third level  uses concepts and principles from the other two levels, but also deal with some of the physical needs reducing stress, increasing productivity, healing and spiritual aspects of life using Reiki.  Quality herbs and supplements are used to increase and prolong life.

2) Working with the TKOH Ministry of Health & Well Being, in an effort to reach people globally as a licensed minister of TKOH, offering counseling services to help people see a better path in life and help provide ways to go down that different path. It is in part, being part counselor and part teacher.

3) The other option for those that qualify and cannot afford the other base programs is Micro-Finance.  We support microfinance programs that enable the poor, mostly women, to lift themselves out of poverty and make better lives for their families. To do this, we partner with a  network of microfinance institutions or practitioners.

4) Staff Fund Raisers in local areas to help raise awareness of the needs of people locally and globally and help raise funds to help people.

While the focus of the program is to help individuals, it becomes a trickle down affect. As people and families are helped and they succeed, they simply tell others and teach them how to succeed as well and becomes a chain reaction. We encourage those that want to go further in the program, to focus on only working with as many as twelve people at a time. In this way each person is being cared for as individuals.  

With more than 400 million poor people cut off from financial services, there is a huge, unmet need for Tkoh programs and microfinance. It is estimated that more than 1 billion are in need globally and we are making every effort to train practitioners to meet those needs of people and their families, which affects local communities.

As practitioners introduce people (communities, business, local schools, etc) to the programs, from which they form a group of twelve and each of the twelve is taught to do the same. Practitioners learn to help people take care of their needs, treating each as a whole person, carrying for each in the needs that a persons body has, soul and spirit, in helping people get out of debt and increase income to care for their families, but have enough for retirement and help others. For those that need financing even to do that we also offer micro-finances, which are small loans to be paid back over a period of time. It is a proactive effort to help people and becomes a trickle down affect that also helps communities.

2) As people are helped they form a group of no more than twelve at a time and once each has been helped, teach those in the group to help others or to simply, pass it forward.

3) To collect accurate and up to date information globally, per community to examine religious trends for our practitioners programs. It is simply designed to help practitioners learn about peoples belief systems and their origins and how to work around beliefs.

4) The other purpose of the program is to track progress and adjust programs to better suite the needs of people in local communities. To be able to state goals and possible outcomes, giving time frames for estimated time of the completion of goals and work.

5) Overall concepts are to help people understand that we on this planet are all very connected to each other. The program works through the success of individuals and families working with church, schools and business.
 

World Hunger is a major global problem, but starvation is a solvable problem.

    Already, at the dawn of the 21st century, 40 million men, women and children (that's roughly 7 Jewish holocausts) perish annually- that's EVERY YEAR- from hunger, starvation, disease and malnutrition. Out of the roughly 100,000-150,000 who die every day around the world, roughly 70,000 of these are children. 

    Is a part of human rights, the right to eat and survive? That is a debt, but one thing clear is starvation is one of the causes for war. People do what they do in an effort to survive. Starvation is a method of genocide, especially when you stop to consider it is a solvable problem, which also means if its solvable then it is intentional to allow starvation to take place.

Today the division of people is stronger now more than ever, where the very rich get richer and the poor starve. This goes way beyond the saying, "if you don't work, you don't eat," as most that are starving do not have the ability to work. 
 

In 1900, there were approximately 1 billion people inhabiting the Earth. Today, in 2008, that number is well over 6,677,563,921 (July 2008 est.) an unprecedented and exponential increase in 100 years of human history.

China and India, the two most populous nations on the planet (both with well over a billion inhabitants), as well as the poor, undeveloped and developing nations that comprise the continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America, will continue to bear the brunt of world hunger and global starvation. Africa is by far the poorest and least developed continent harboring the poorest of the poor and the most destitute worldwide.

Today, more than 1 billion people in the world are chronically starving and malnourished. By contrast, the United States throws away 100 billion tons of food a year. Of a total of 6.7 billion people worldwide, roughly 1.4 billion live on less than US $ 1/day. 1.7 billion lack access to clean water. Three billion live without decent sanitation.

Solving and ending world hunger and global starvation will require a lot. First and foremost must be the immediate cessation of a nearly US $1 trillion dollar global military budget. Funds instead must be re-directed towards creating healthy, organic, largely vegetarian lifestyles and solutions.

Sustainable ecological/economic development with heavy emphasis on recycling, protecting and preserving local, regional and global environmental resources must become paramount. Green businesses that promote care and compassion rather than greed, exploitation and profit, are also an important factor in transforming our global society into one that can survive the 21st century.

The continuing corporate/commercial "green revolution" and the introduction of genetically engineered foods will only further harm the environment in the long term as well as exacerbate the non-sustainability factor and drastically undermine the prospect of feeding the world's poor and hungry in the immediate years and decades to come.

Solving the problem of starvation is good for business as it helps secure our future and our children's future. Not dealing with it makes the problem worse. It is about humanity or the very lack of it and that is something that we can all do something about. It is all a problem of attitude and belief to allow it to continue. It is a condition of the heart to either deal with it or choose not to deal with it. 

 Currently, there is enough food grown on the planet to provide every single man, woman and child with approximately 3500 calories of nutrition per day (a normal healthy diet takes in between 2000- 2500 calories per day). Feeding the world is attainable if given the will and the priority of the peoples and nations to make it so. An evolving/advanced world civilization will REQUIRE that feeding its people become a high priority goal to be met and attained.

Priorities are caused mostly in part by need and the belief or perception. Beliefs and perceptions are controlled by the condition of the hearts of people in either helping end starvation or doing something else. We choose to allow starvation to continue.

Starvation affects us all. With starvation also comes more disease and war. If we want to survive on this planet we all need to seeing things from a global perspective. Changes can be made, but each of us need to learn to see life and how it affects us differently than we currently do.

Homelessness and starvation can run hand in hand. Homelessness is a bigger problem, because often the perception of why some is homeless is because of laziness, etc. People are more hesitant to help the homeless as they are those starving even though they do often run hand in hand.

It all runs hand in hand including crime, drug addiction and disease. People loose hope and look for quick fixes in order not to feel things. The more we try to avoid the problems and challenges of life the more drugs and alcohol are consumed, which always brings and increase of crime and disease. Short term thinking is always the result of an addictive behavior. It is the aspirin mentality, which taken solves the problem (so we think) for the short term, instead of really dealing with the real problems. It is important to deal with short term needs and create long term solutions. Too many of the problems including poverty, which has to do with food security or insecurity issue, which is connected to crime against human beings and also war are all clearly connected and we need to learn to see the relationships that the problems may have to provide long term solutions.

Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.

"The human rights flashpoints in Darfur, Zimbabwe, Gaza, Iraq and Myanmar demand immediate action," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, launching AI Report 2008: State of the World's Human Rights.

"Injustice, inequality and impunity are the hallmarks of our world today. Governments must act now to close the yawning gap between promise and performance."

Amnesty International's Report 2008, shows that sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, people are still tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries, face unfair trials in at least 54 countries and are not allowed to speak freely in at least 77 countries.

"2007 was characterized by the impotence of Western governments and the ambivalence or reluctance of emerging powers to tackle some of the world's worst human rights crises, ranging from entrenched conflicts to growing inequalities which are leaving millions of people behind," said Ms Khan.

Amnesty International cautioned that the biggest threat to the future of human rights is the absence of a shared vision and collective leadership.

"2008 presents an unprecedented opportunity for new leaders coming to power and countries emerging on the world stage to set a new direction and reject the myopic policies and practices that in recent years have made the world a more dangerous and divided place," said Ms Khan.

Amnesty International challenged governments to set a new paradigm for collective leadership based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"The most powerful must lead by example," said Ms Khan.

• China must live up to the human rights promises it made around the Olympic Games and allow free speech and freedom of the press and end "re-education through labor".
• The USA must close Guantánamo detention camp and secret detention centers, prosecute the detainees under fair trial standards or release them, and unequivocally reject the use of torture and ill-treatment.
• Russia must show greater tolerance for political dissent, and none for impunity on human rights abuses in Chechnya.
• The EU must investigate the complicity of its member states in "renditions" of terrorist suspects and set the same bar on human rights for its own members as it does for other countries.

Ms Khan warned: "World leaders are in a state of denial but their failure to act has a high cost. As Iraq and Afghanistan show, human rights problems are not isolated tragedies, but are like viruses that can infect and spread rapidly, endangering all of us."

"Governments today must show the same degree of vision, courage and commitment that led the United Nations to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sixty years ago."

"There is a growing demand from people for justice, freedom and equality."

Some of the most striking images of 2007 were of monks in Myanmar, lawyers in Pakistan, and women activists in Iran.

"Restless and angry, people will not be silenced, and leaders ignore them at their own peril," said Ms Khan.

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Unmanaged boundaries tend to encourage illegal cross-border activities, uncontrolled migration, and confrontation; territorial disputes may evolve from historical and/or cultural claims, or they may be brought on by resource competition; ethnic and cultural clashes continue to be responsible for much of the territorial fragmentation and internal displacement of the estimated 6.6 million people and cross-border displacements of 8.6 million refugees around the world as of early 2006. An increase of 6% from 2006.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that in December 2006 there was a global population of 8.8 million registered refugees and as many as 24.5 million IDPs in more than 50 countries; the actual global population of refugees is probably closer to 10 million given the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi refugees displaced throughout the Middle East (2007). An increase of 7% from 2006.

Current situation: approximately 800,000-1 million (est.) people, mostly women and children, are trafficked annually across national borders, not including millions trafficked within their own countries; at least 80% of the victims are female and up to 50% are minors; 75% of all victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation; roughly two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people). An increase of 8-11% in 2006.

Cocaine: worldwide coca leaf cultivation in 2005 amounted to 208,500 hectares; Colombia produced slightly more than two-thirds of the worldwide crop, followed by Peru and Bolivia; potential pure cocaine production rose to 900 from 645 metric tons in 2005 - partially due to improved methodologies used to calculate levels of production. Colombia conducts aggressive coca eradication campaign, but both Peruvian and Bolivian Governments are hesitant to eradicate coca in key growing areas; 551 metric tons of export-quality cocaine (85% pure) is documented to have been seized or destroyed in 2005; US consumption of export quality cocaine is estimated to have been in excess of 380 metric tons. An increase of 6% from 2006.

Opiates: worldwide illicit opium poppy cultivation reached 208,500 hectares in 2005; potential opium production of 4,990 metric tons was only a 9% decrease over 2004's highest total recorded since estimates began in mid-1980s; Afghanistan is world's primary opium producer, accounting for 90% of the global supply; Southeast Asia - responsible for 9% of global opium - saw marginal increases in production; Latin America produced 1% of global opium, but most was refined into heroin destined for the US market; if all potential opium was processed into pure heroin, the potential global production would be 577 metric tons of heroin in 2005. An increase of 8% from 2006.

Understand what the facts are, keeping in mind we are all on this planet together and we are all very connected to each other and to a great degree dependant on one another. It really is about beliefs. With an open mind we all can learn many things, which makes it possible for all of us to get along on this planet.

Global Missions Initiative is in part having a basic understanding of who we are on this planet, broken down into geographic locations and within the locations are formed governments and each ones concept of security in what it spends on the military. Military spending as a great effect on the economy of a country. Good or bad, military and government hires a lot of people and with needing supplies constantly more are employed.

How a government is run affects business or the basic supply of all things to people including agriculture and its ability to feed people, which is connected with the water supply or lack of it in some cases either due to global warming or erosion. That erosion has a lot to do with what types of crops can be planted if any at all.

Much of this is controlled by beliefs in what see as a problem and what they work on because of those beliefs. Obviously people do not work on things if they feel it is not important. Beliefs control how people see life and liberty and control religion. There has been over a long period of time clashes in religious beliefs, which is nothing new, but as the population grows it becomes important to understand other peoples belief systems in order work with them. Some belief systems are good and even healthy, while some belief systems should cause major concern. Beliefs are also based on ones locust of control and if they are they center of things or a part of things. As the planet gets smaller it becomes more important to be less selfish and learn to share with others less fortunate just to be able to get along.

These beliefs obviously need to change and war of course is one way beliefs get changed and it has been that way since time began. Now with the development of nuclear energy especially in a countries weaponry systems war becomes less of a viable option. Beliefs also have a lot to do with the treatment of people, refuges, in trafficking people and the drugs that are consumed.

Our goal is to become involved with every country and an International Organization, not formed by governments or controlled by governments, but formed by its people as a possible solution for better understanding each other so solutions can be found for all parities.

TKOH is a think tank that looks for solutions for people and families. This approach is the reverse of normal thinking. The norm is from top being government down to the people. In TKOH it is reversed from the peoples perspective to the top. In other words, find solutions that work for people and families and better solutions can be found in an effort for countries to get along, which is the entire function of TKOH and Global Missions Initiative.

However, having said that, it will take people willing to be involved on all levels for their own good and for their families good to make things really work. Pass it forward.

As a School: Become a member School helping students connect with other students across the globe raising awareness. We offer educational services, including geographic up to date in formation about countries and how much they spend on the military and we want to update that information to include how much countries spend on aid to their citizens. It is an effort to get children even thinking about global issues and their future. Pass it forward.

Business: Become a member of Tkoh and be Green and make a statement. It is good for your business and your community. Green Business that not only cares about the environment and the impact it has on the earth in ecologically sound business practices, but also care about people in the community and ending starvation. Pass it forward.

Church: Did you know that as a church you can help end starvation in this generation? If every member of every church would give just one dollar each per month, there would be enough money available to end starvation. The truth is that we all get to meet God in the end and we will all have to give an account for what did or did not do in life. In this small way we can end starvation, but it is a condition of the heart to work together to do so. Pass it forward.

As an Individual & Family: Become a Tkoh Practitioner and become aware and learn what is happening globally and that we are all very connected to each other as human beings and as such all very dependant on each other to get along on this tiny little planet called earth. We can encourage our churches, business and governments to work together better. You can also be involved in one of our programs to help you and your family and your future. It's your life and your family and what you do with it is up to you. Pass it forward.