Promoting Health Care and Education for the Displaced!
SAVIC started in 2010, with a dream to achieve an African
society where everyone can influence decisions that affect their holistic health
and which actively participate in the social, economic, political and cultural
advancement of their communities. SAVIC
is a local non-profit organization based in the Kakuma refugee camp, a
multinational settlement hosting more than 180,000 refugees from 14 countries
in the world. SAVIC was founded by a group of displaced people, with an aim to
show our voluntary support in accompanying the refugee community towards
sustainable socio-economic development and reinforcing education, health care
and refugee’ human rights. The experiences that most displaced people,
especially refugees live are inhuman and challenging, with women and girls
being the most affected. Many women and adolescent girls have been subject to
sexual violence, physical torture, and denial from their basic human rights in
their countries of origin. In many warring countries, young children and youth
are forced to become soldiers and fight with no idea of what they are fighting
for. Educational infrastructures are destroyed, making it a near-impossible
dream for children and young adults to achieve their potentials. Medical
services are poor in most war-affected settings, leading to the death of many
victims. The living conditions are hard, and many girls are at risk due to the
increased gender-based discrimination, coercion, violence and other traditional
practices.
SAVIC non-profit is based in Kakuma refugee
camp, a remote place certainly at the end of the world. We thought a need to
have “heroes” who can make the voices of young people heard. The different
institutions serving the refugees, including the Government of Kenya, UNHCR,
WFP, and implementing NGOs are doing their best to cover the basics human needs
at least to sustain the survival of people, giving food, shelter, water and
sanitation, medical services, and primary education high priority.
OUR VISION
SAVIC dreams of a society where
everyone can influence decisions that affect their health and which actively
participate in the social, economic, political and cultural advancement of
their communities.
OUR MISSION
The mission of SAVIC is
to promote, facilitate and advocate for quality access to health care and
lifelong learning for the displaced people in Kakuma, Kenya in order to
establish healthy, harmonious and empowered communities.
OUR VALUES
As a community of volunteers and professional servants of the community,
SAVIC upholds the following values:
- Ubuntu – “We
belong to one another”.
- Accountability
and transparency
- Equity, fairness
and non-discrimination
- Community-centeredness
OUR ACTIVITIES
- Adolescents Sexual & Reproductive Health (ASRH)
- Sports and Leisures for Girls
- Vocational Skills Development: Tailoring, Hairdressing, etc.
- Functional Literacy and Numeracy
- Communicative English Courses
- Fast-trast learning
- Economic empowerment through micro-business and mini-cooperative facilitation.
- ICT Training
An adolescent trainee
Adolescent trainees of 2014
Vasco A., SAVIC Programs Manager counting the t-shirts.
The T-shirts were printed with financial support from the Segal Family Foundation, and JSI Research & Training Institute.
