In our daily work we are guided by principles and core values that set our course of action in both the North and South.
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Vision· SCF achieves sustainable mediumterm impacts in areas where it operates, with efficient management of resources, with the active participation of the community that is so rigorous that it directs its own future.
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Transparency· We base our work on honesty, mutual accountability and maximum access to information, as pillars of social and economic accountability.
Participation· Encourage democratic and participatory principles as means to social transformation and development
Professionalism· We promote processes based on the optimization of resources and quality of working teams, focused on the search for greater impact.
Sustainability· We seek a balance between social, economic and respect for and protection of the environment as a way to permanently reduce the causes of vulnerability.
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Social justice· Build a development approach aimed at promoting equity and capacity of people to the enjoyment of human freedoms and fair access to opportunities.
Critical thinking· The promotion of critical spirit, which determines the action of solidarity and development as part of a learning process is a necessary factor for promoting social transformation.
Solidarity·We understand that joint responsibility in the development of the human being is the core value to achieve the common good and the defence of human dignity.
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Mission & Vision
Mission· We are a local non-governmental foundation for development works in Soweto, a township about 30km from Johannesburg. Our aim is to promote sustainable social change through improving the living conditions of vulnerable populations, especially children, and affecting the causes of poverty and inequality.Vision· SCF achieves sustainable mediumterm impacts in areas where it operates, with efficient management of resources, with the active participation of the community that is so rigorous that it directs its own future.
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Principles
Consistency· Our solidarity displays the institutional ideology in harmony with development policies and priorities of the local community.Transparency· We base our work on honesty, mutual accountability and maximum access to information, as pillars of social and economic accountability.
Participation· Encourage democratic and participatory principles as means to social transformation and development
Professionalism· We promote processes based on the optimization of resources and quality of working teams, focused on the search for greater impact.
Sustainability· We seek a balance between social, economic and respect for and protection of the environment as a way to permanently reduce the causes of vulnerability.
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Values
Human dignity· We work for the welfare of people from ethics, respect the diversity and the promotion of human rights, understand poverty and inequality as violations of social justice.Social justice· Build a development approach aimed at promoting equity and capacity of people to the enjoyment of human freedoms and fair access to opportunities.
Critical thinking· The promotion of critical spirit, which determines the action of solidarity and development as part of a learning process is a necessary factor for promoting social transformation.
Solidarity·We understand that joint responsibility in the development of the human being is the core value to achieve the common good and the defence of human dignity.