Our work and the great concern we attribute: In line with our mission and vision, empowering poor, rural children and families to achieve a sustainable, rewarding and autonomous life through education, advocacy and practical support remain our greatest concern and focus in all our activities. This is the mandate we need to achieve for the well-being of present and future generations. Every human being deserve a decent life, same rights and opportunities therefore, we are determined to help impoverished rural children and families in Magu district to be the actors of change in fighting poverty and participate actively in all processes of development in their respective areas. Equality and dignity respect first! What we focus on in our activities (thematic areas): Sawil Pax Upendo Academy for Poor Children focuses on the following areas in implementing its activities:
Promotion of Early Childhood Care, Development and Education (P.E.C.C.D.E);
Promotion of Free Quality Basic Education For All (P.F.Q.B.E.F.A);
Child Health and Nutrition Support (C.H.N.S);
Child Protection and Development Advocacy (C.P.D.A);
Responsible Parenting Advocacy (R.P.A);
Social Assistance and Empowerment (S.A.E).
Here are the services we offer under our thematic areas:
We provide free comprehensive early childhood care to impoverished rural children as a way to start initiate children in early ages to education and our footstep to fight illiteracy;
We provide free quality basic education services and support to impoverished rural children and other children in need of our services in rural communities;
We provide food and health support to impoverished rural children while they are getting access to education;
We raise the culture of peace and dignity respect in daily lives of children in schools by sharing the message of hope, peace, love, unity and respect from the word of God and other sources of knowledge;
We empower and support the poorest rural families while teaching them responsible parenting, entrepreneurship, vocational skills and adult education in order to fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy and diseases in the households for the well-being of all children in rural communities;
We provide children’s rights and environmental education to the children in schools and the community at large in order to set a safe environment for children to grow and live free from any abuse or discrimination while protecting the nature for the current and future generations;
We promote and support actions towards ending all forms of violence based on any factor against children’s dignity respect, integral development and well-being.
Our Strategy: In order to fulfill our mission and vision, we at Sawil Pax Upendo Academy shall give hope for a promising future by investing and facilitating the access to free quality education, care, nutrition and health services to less fortunate rural children from pre-primary up to further levels of education, bring them up in moral and spiritual values while helping the poorest families in the community to end household poverty, hunger and disease and live a decent life. The fundamental rights of every human being are particular to that person and must be protected and facilitated to have those rights regardless of social, cultural, political and economic backgrounds; for this reason we will invest more in child protection and responsible parenting advocacy in our community. Our core values:
LOVE AND PEACE: everything we do shall promote love and peace among the community and the targeted group.
INTEGRITY and ACCURACY: the founders of this children’s centre started it with zero funds but now this children’s centre has made a great impact in many children’s lives including their parents/guardians so, we shall be faithful and integral to the stated objectives, its beneficiaries and the supporters. Doing what is planned in the time frame agreed with the resources allocated and not otherwise.
FLEXIBILITY and FOCUSED: in all our activities we shall study the environment and come up with a positive solution to a particular situation. We do not accept failure but we pay our attention to the better future of the community we serve.
FRIENDS OF THE NATURE and ENVIRONMENT: everything we do is all about creating a harmonized society and this is a great task. We shall protect the nature, the environment in everything we do to serve us now and in future.
DIGNITY RESPECT and COOPERATION: every creature is created equal to each other and all has the same fundamental rights in that equality; so there is no need to undermine any human being in regards with his/her social, economical, spiritual and even political and cultural backgrounds. We shall always promote peace, equality, dignity respect and cooperation to the people we serve in order to create a safe World for all. Everyone need another one to be him/her and enjoy being in the World.
Our projects on the ground: The following projects initiated by Save the Will (SAWIL) Pax Upendo Academy for Poor Children are taking place in our community in Magu district as our daily services:
Sawil Pax Upendo Academy Children’s Centres: is our daycare centres projects giving free access to early childhood care, development, education, nutrition and health support to less fortunate rural children and other children in the community located at Bujora and Kisesa wards, Magu district.
Child dignity Count Project: is our project working to protect children’s against abuse/violence, promote children’s rights education and advocacy in the community and giving children a chance to discuss and amplify their voices to advocate on the matter concerning their lives and future in the community.
Family Rescue and Preparedness Support: is our project educating families on good parenting, giving practical support, life and vocational skills training to poor families in order to help them move out of poverty and live a decent life.
We still have no supporters but we do our best to implement activities under these projects and our organisation as it is our responsibility to find solutions on the problems affecting our community. Any partner is welcomed to join us in this mission.
Impact made since our creation to date: Let us mention the most remarkable impacts we made from 2014 to 2017.
A number of 134 impoverished rural children from the most poor families have received our services (education, care, love, food and health support) at our children’s centres and saved from the risk to join the streets and become street children, street vendors and continue to live peacefully and getting access to education in different primary schools some with the support of our organisation, other by the support of some local partners and few by the support of their families (especially those who were from the low-income working families and small businesses dealers families).
In that time, 15 poor families were supported with skills on how to organize and run small businesses which have changed their lives.
Also, in relation with child protection and development advocacy activities, this year on June 16th we were able to organize the commemoration of the Day of the African Child in collaboration with Hope for Destitute People’s Foundation – HDPF and together we raise our voices towards importance of giving a child education and protecting him/her against abuse and violence.