​To empower communities, through the exchange of resources, skills and energy to bring about lasting social change.

WOA assists organizations to strengthen their projects with ideas and the means to see those projects through. With WOA's input, these local efforts are more able to achieve their goals and become more self-sufficient.

Our bottom-up strategy enables us to focus on addressing needs within specific communities by assisting NGOs and charitable organizations that do not have the money or the man power to find solutions to their local problems, enabling them to benefit from the collective contribution of an international network of social innovators.

Wheels Of Action's main focus is the creation and expansion of networks.

NGO Networking Database
WOA is in the process of creating a large network that will facilitate networking and cooperation between individual volunteers, for-profit/non-profit organizations and civil society at large. By pooling data in one location we aim to improve the access to information and knowledge to assist the poverty alleviation efforts of this community. We hope to eventually create an online community that will grow around this network. This community will serve as a forum for multi-lateral discussion and creative thought.

Before we actually translate something into reality, we must be able to dream about it. Any socioeconomic dream is nothing but the first step in the process of mapping the course to our destination. If we do a good job in identifying our destination, more innovations and changes will take place to help us reach it.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. When schoolchildren go with their teachers and tour the poverty museums, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhumane condition and for allowing it to continue in such a large segment of the population until the early part of the twenty-first century.

I have always believed that the elimination of poverty from the world is a matter of will. Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding a solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.
The poor must be made active players, rather than passive victims, in the process of globalization.

Muhammad Yumus
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. by Muhammad Yunus (2006 Nobel Peace Prize-Winner)