We need a volunteer web developer who uses DIVI Builder to rework this page and put thumbnails in various categories with links to the following and make it fit with main design and then we will make volunteer job postings for each item below

OVER 50 PILOT PROJECTS COMPLETED IN BELIZE AS OF 01/01/2024!

 

“All that was used for vengeance will now be used for good.”

Edmund, Count of Monte Christo

42 MSME Grant Projects During Covid including small business adjustment and backyard farming and fishing 

4 In Person Violence Reduction Pilot Projects in Southside and 1 at Kolbe Foundation

6 Men currently in informal mentorship to change their lives

20/20 Project: Disruptive Strategies to Promote 20 Online Activists, 20 Businesses

Social Media Marketing Training for 20 Micro Businesses

25 Victims of Violence have received preliminary strategic intervention

6 Future Leaders sponsored for Education as well as Mentorship

We have responded to over 2000 inquiries since 2017 from people have requesting guidance in regards to birth papers, social security, writing resumes, job applications, opening bank accounts, taking out loans, getting grants, business plan review, scholarships, advocacy, missing persons, help with permaculture or agriculture or fishing projects, domestic violence, crisis management, health issues, religious questions and prayer requests.

Through the advocates and leaders that we have provided informal mentorship to we have contributed knowledge and insights and submitted recommendations in regards to the following:

Violence Reduction Programs/Cure Violence Protocols

Domestic Violence Issues

Human Trafficking Issues

Non Profit Act

MLTPA (Money Laundering Prevention Act)

Belize Companies Act

Economic Substance Act

Disability and Equal Rights Bill

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Constitutional Reform

Fisheries Resources Act

BTB Guideines

Non Profit Best Practices

Indigenous Issues

Education Reform

Healthcare Reform

Transparency in Campaign Contributions 

Nepotism Issues

Corruption Issues Money Laundering Issues

Church and Association Reform

COVID Issues

Since 2017, founding director Gretchen Smith has visited and assessed over 200 ministries and churches in person as well as over 50 farms and hundreds of businesses to inform the strategic development of SOZO Belize and SOZO Foundation Belize. She would rather work very hard to set a proper cornerstone and ensure the business and the NGO succeed long term than rush into development so her focus is and probably always will be on capacity building. The struggle is managing her PTSD and health problems and lack of resources while being disabled and she lost everything in Hurricane Lisa, November 2, 2022 and basically had to start over and that is a story covered in another blog post 

Social Media and other Important Links

The following pages are currently managed by director Gretchen Smith but volunteers are needed to develop them further. 

Linked In For Gretchen Smith https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallartist/

Linked in For SOZO Belize (Consulting) https://www.linkedin.com/company/sozo-belize-consulting/ (new page)

Linked in For SOZO Foundation Belize (NGO) https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/sozo-foundation-belize/ (new page)

Over 50 published articles on Linked in : https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallartist/details/featured/ 

Belize Life on Linked In:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3296282/

Expert Listing: https://humantraffickingexperts.com/main/business_details/483

FREE BIBLE COLLEGE https//:www.harvestime.org

 

 

 

SOZO YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/tallartist/

SOZO Foundation FB Page for the Non-Profit https://www.facebook.com/SOZOFOUNDATIONBELIZE

SOZO Belize FB Page for the Consulting Firm https://www.facebook.com/SOZO.BELIZE.CONSULTING

Scholarships For Belize FB Page https://www.facebook.com/ScholarshipsForBelize

Gang Prevention and Management Foundation FB Group (Expert Contributor) https://www.facebook.com/groups/283358431799660

Femicides in Belize FB Page (work in progress) https://www.facebook.com/FemicidesInBelize 

Kill A Man for Nutin Belize FB Page (work in progress) https://www.facebook.com/HomicidesBelize 

Missing Person Belize FB Page (work in progress): https://www.facebook.com/MissingPersonsBelize 

Women in Ministry Public FB https://www.facebook.com/womenbelizepublic

Women in Ministry Private Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBelize

Missionaries in Belize Private Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/260002227738322

Community in Riversdale FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/riversdalebeachbelize

City of Zion Discipleship Training on FB Group (worldwide)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cityofzion

Gretchen’s Public Ministry FB: https://www.facebook.com/gretchensmithministry

Gretchen’s Art FB: https://www.facebook.com/gretchensmithart

Gretchen’s Personal FB: https://www.facebook.com/tallartist

We also have done page set up and remain emergency administrator on over 20 other pages for other organizations and businesses who are not tech saavy. A volunteer is needed to train those people online in social media page management.

Our office and the home of director Gretchen Smith was destroyed in Hurricane Lisa in November of 2022 so at this time all staff, volunteers and interns work REMOTELY from home. We do not at this time have any land or facilities but we still continue to develop and implement strategy as we have capacity.

PLEASE NOTE: DIRECTOR Gretchen Smith IS DISABLED (C-PTSD, lung problems, poor hearing and other health challenges) AND PREFERS WRITTEN COMMUNICATION. She is located currently in Hopkins Belize.

TEXT ONLY VIA WHATS APP, SIGNAL OR TELEGRAM TO +501-672-0547

OR TO TALLARTIST@HOTMAIL.COM

 

Janitor for Jesus Guiding Verses

Psalms 105:15-16, Jer. 1:10, Isaiah 61:1, 1:15-20, Luke 15:3-7, Acts 2:46, 18:10

“Learn to do right; seek justice.

Defend the oppressed.

Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

‘Come now, let us settle the matter’, says the LORD.”

“The only thing necessary for triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

Edmund Burke

Meaning of SOZO

SOZO is a Greek Word  from the new testament in the Bible that means

  • to save, keep safe and sound, 
  • to rescue from danger or destruction or to rescue one (from injury or peril)  
  • to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, 
  • to make well, heal, restore to health  to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, 
  • to save or rescue  to save in the technical biblical sense  to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment  
  • to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance