Aims and Objectives
The Kaicombey Foundation aim is to instill human rights norms and values as inalienable rights within the disadvantaged societies in Sierra Leone, Africa, and its sub-region, and to integrate them into economic and social development there. The Foundation seeks to promote, defend and protect international human rights standards, values, and respect for human and people's rights, the rule of law, democracy and good governance, to document, analyze and report violations of human rights and substantive rights in particular, promote access to justice for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, build , support and strengthen civil society, youths and young people, women and children, both physical and intellectually challenged adults and children as disability issues.
The Foundation also seeks to support the healing journey of individuals and communities who are survivors of violence and conflict, as models of hope. It believes in the acknowledgement of the suffering and injustice as a well-founded response to help restore the dignity and values of victims.
The aims are achieved through the following objectives:
- To advocate for the interest and concerns of the civil society, disadvantaged youths and young people, women, and children who are voiceless and defend their fundamental human rights to be heard.
- To collaborate and network with potential partners among NGOs, donors and other institutions, in order to mobilize resources to address the needs and concern of the disadvantaged civil society.
- To reduce child labour through access to quality education, particularly for girl children in poor and rural communities, by providing sponsorships, grants and financial aids to children through the established Kaicombey Foundation Scholarship Scheme. This scheme is also extended to post secondary/tertiary education like colleges, universities and medical schools.
- To fight and reduce child and maternal mortality rates through the provision of free and affordable medical facilities, provision of public health education and training. To provide medical equipments and supplies to hospitals and clinics in Sierra Leone as well as to respond to emergency calls for help, once this is within the reach and mandate of the foundation.
- Establishment of maternal and child health care delivery services through a community mobile health clinic, and give support for the training of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to improve the health status of the post war communities. Those staff and volunteers of The Kaicombey Foundation who are trained and registered medical nurses will manage the mobile clinic. The Kaicombey community mobile healthcare service will visit communities to give public health education on communicable disease, child and maternal mortality and reproductive healthcare, treat minor illness and refer cases. It will monitor nutrition and food security as significant issues within the scope of preventive measures and offer advice and training.
- To address the concept of inequality and exclusion of the voiceless and underprivileged by supporting initiatives that will address the underlying factor(s) or causes of the problem.
- To assist in poverty alleviation through food security and sustainable agriculture, especially engaging women, encouraging back yard gardening as a sustainable community program for self-reliance, to provide micro-credit to women for small business enterprises, to support and advocate for policies and programs that will help reduce poverty, corruption and bad governance.
- Give support in the rehabilitation and reintegration of the juvenile justice system to encourage it to respond in the best interests of children. To monitor juvenile courts in defense, promotion, and protection of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (C.R.C) within the context of the rule of law.
- Access to justice : To provide a free legal aid facility for survivors and victims of sexual and domestic violence as well as give sustainable peer support for the rehabilitation of survivors through psychosocial services and the provision of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support as a healing model to restore their dignity.
- Establishment of peer support groups in schools, colleges and universities as a social network that could be used to share developmental ideas, and discuss potential problems that affect teenagers, youths and young people for possible solutions in both Africa and overseas where the chapter is established. Student/pupils are given peer support based on their identified needs.
The foundation will further pursue other related objectives in the interest of its beneficiaries to achieve its aim.
The Foundation values the voices of civil society and seeks to assist them to gain ownership over their own development work, give them the enabling environment, opportunity and support to be able to control and manage the available resources to achieve their common goals and agenda.
The Kaicombey Foundation implements projects under three components, namely health, education and social justice. Among the Foundation's concerns are sanitation, HIV/AIDS, community health education, the maternal / child mortality rate, advocacy and policy regarding, young people, gender and child protection, resource mobilization and capacity building, training, peace building , human rights and democratization, agriculture and food security, and disability issues.
In Sierra Leone, health care has become worrisome, while the country endures some of the worst child mortality and maternal health outcomes worldwide. The country is yet far from reaching the objectives of the Millennium Development Goal. The poor health care and high mortality rate amongst the vulnerable (women and children) has a dramatic effect on the growing Sierra Leone population. We are trying to address the barriers to accessing quality and affordable healthcare in the country as one of the priority areas of our projects, by establishing:
The Kaicombey Medical Emergency Fund:
This fund is used to pay 50% or 100% of medical bills or medical facility costs as the case and circumstance may apply to the beneficiaries. It is specifically established as to complement the efforts of other organizations and the government to fight and reduce the high rate of child and maternal mortality, and communicable diseases in the interior part of the country where the situation is visible and challenging.
The emergency medical fund criteria support the patient based on the socio-economic effect of the illness, what the patient can afford in fees and travel, and the quality of healthcare facility needed.
The Fund's main aim and focus is to reduce the mortality rates, with special attention to infants and pregnant women in the rural areas. As an organization deeply concerned with human rights and social justice, the Foundation views this venture as fundamentally rights-based approach. Access to healthcare is part of human rights!!
Provision and donation of free medical supplies to hospital and healthcare centers. These equip and empower medical staff to promote and deliver quality healthcare services and seeking collaboration and donations is essential to the Foundation's mission.
Funding Source
The organization is funded through the following sources:
- A compulsory monthly contribution from Kaicombey family members. The family members also make voluntary donations at home and abroad.
- Fund raising and donations from well-wishers as well as development of project proposals for specific donor attention.
- The Kaicombey family has a background in farming since the time of their great grandparents. Because of this, the organization also gets funding through the proceeds and sales of its agricultural production, such as palm oil from the palm cannel farm. The organization has over twenty acres of palm cannel farm in the eastern part of Sierra Leone.
- 70% of sales of these plantations are currently donated to the organization for a comprehensive and sustainable support to the organization. The family also owns hundreds of acres of land for agriculture and infrastructural development projects for medium or long term intervention.
We do not believe in discrimination, sectionalism, either tribal, or regional but rather do believe in sharing, good teamwork for a common goal.
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