Empowerment

Eden Petroleum is committed to the Principle of Empowerment. Empowerment comes from knowledge and motivation. Motivation comes from hope for a better future. When these ingredients are nurtured, fundamental change in peoples’ perception of their prospects occurs. Through empowerment, marginalized peoples in resource rich regions will be empowered to change their own lives. Eden Petroleum is committed to encouraging marginalized people to gain the knowledge and skills needed to build a better life, a better family, and a better society. Eden Petroleum’s corporate charter requires that its team empower people.

Eden Petroleum empowers by:

• Investing in local schools
• Investing in local skills training
• Making information and resources available to facilitate decision-making
• Providing alternatives and listening to the wishes of local stakeholders
• Accepting the reasonable views of the collective decision making of local peoples
• Encouraging positive-thinking about the ability of local people to effect change
• Promoting a positive self-image in all peoples, and working to overcome local or regional stigmas
• Working to agree what is right and wrong in that part of the world, and making that process fully transparent.