The framework of relational poverty begins in the creation story. In Genesis, God establishes four key relationships when he creates mankind: human's relationship to God, human's relationship to self, human's relationship to others, and human's relationship to the rest of creation. In the beginning, these relationships were all perfectly balanced, which allowed for human flourishing.   

As a poverty alleviation organization, you might think that an obvious goal for all of our clients would be financial wealth, but we don't believe that economic wealth in itself is the opposite of poverty. The opposite of poverty is holistic flourishing.