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What is AHEADS?
AHEADS was founded on the basis of a number of diaspora led initiatives and is aimed at working in partnership with local people in health, education, human rights and skills development. It is a not for profit social enterprise and charitable organisation which is intended to help and support people and communities encountering hardship as a result of lack of basic services including education and health. Our main focus is to help and support Somali people who are in need of basic services for health, education and life skills.
Our aims and objectives
AHEAD’S mission is to empower people through education by providing individuals and communities with opportunities to learn and develop skills, as well as raising awareness about the issues that affect their lives. Our aim is to improve the social, economic and educational status of people in the Horn of Africa. We strive to make a contribution to the wider common strategy of tackling poverty and illiteracy to enable people to understand and protect their human rights, and to improve their lives and break the cycle of poverty that so often persists across the generations in Africa.
Our practical objectives include:
1. Capacity building to develop both human resources and contributing facilities or aspects of infrastructure.
- How:
Increasing the availability and the skills of local work force through
provision of training and personal development. - Mobilising diaspora members’ knowledge, experience, and skills as
well as their understanding of local issues. - Improving access to and geographical distribution of health and
educational facilities. - Identifying and filling in gaps in existing development activities whether
provided by local institutions or foreign aid organisations.
2. Generation and provision of resources
- How:
Fund raising - Delivery of services directly or through support of and collaboration
with statutory, international and local NGOs. - Provision of the necessary consultancy, information and research
resources. - Contribution of professionally skilled manpower on a temporary basis
as required.
3. Community empowerment and publication of educational and information materials
- How:
Provision of opportunities and facilities for community engagement in
identifying priorities, in the planning and implementation of actions to
meet these priorities. - Raising of public awareness of issues affecting lives, particularly in the sphere of health, education and human rights.
- Understanding the impact of people’s beliefs, views and cultural preferences relating to health, to the education of their children and families, and to general development issues. This would be supported by carrying out or collaborating with others in relevant studies and research.
Ending the Cycle of Preventable Diseases
Prevention and reduction of poverty page
In the prevention and reduction of poverty, the public benefits that our organisation will deliver include:
Our organisation’s activities will be directed towards fighting with the root causes of poverty and social inequality of access to resources by helping beneficiaries from poorer communities gain education which we believe is the main tool for the prevention of poverty. Our mission in the prevention and the reduction of poverty is to equip people with the right knowledge, training for skills for life and the resources they need to restore self-sufficiency and break the cycle of poverty so people can better themselves in life.
