Who are we?
SWWB is a Christian non-governmental and non-profit organization looking to:
1) provide awareness, relief, intervention, care and development to the marginalized communities, especially refugees and stateless.
2) equip and train community-based/led organizations, community leaders and mobilisers to better serve, care and protect their community.
3) advocate, train and consult faith-based/affiliated organization on holistic and comprehensive care for the marginalized communities for the greater good.
4) advance and strengthen the Malaysia’s social work scene.
What we do?
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A direct intervention to rescue, relief and respond to high risk cases of child protection and gender-based violence that include domestic violence, sexual abuse, trafficking and others by having case management (hospital visitation, police reporting, home visitation, counselling service, etc), community safe placement (providing shelter within the community) and community-based protection (support from community).
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A development work for and with the community-based/led organization to form a professional service framework with a purposeful and meaningful design of the organization identity, service structure, referral system, programs, casework, group work and community work to better serve and support their own communities.
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An empowerment program for holistic growth and wellness on top of the existing program that the community has. For example, on top of an existing sports program, additional values such as leadership, protection awareness, self-identity, mental health, sex education will be incorporated into the program.
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A journey to build capacity, train and supervise individuals such as community leaders, mobilisers, focal points to step up and move up higher in their work professionalism and personal growth.
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An initiative to advance and strengthen the current Malaysia’s social work scene in its standard, quality, treatment, welfare and wellbeing of social workers and helping professionals.
How we do?
Holistic Community Transformation:
Meaningful, Purposeful, Sustainable
In order to transform community, it is important to look at it in a holistic and comprehensive manner.
At the core of every community lives a person. We approach a person holistically in the aspects of spiritual, physical, emotional, relational and mental; wanting them to flourish in all of them.
Within and among the communities, there need to be interactions, so that interdependence and reciprocal relationships can be built, support can be given and resources can be shared among one another.
Everyone is subjected to a larger ecosystem, some may be in a well-developed ecosystem, some may be in a broken ecosystem, for instance, the one that the refugees and stateless are in. Hence, it is crucial to close the gaps in the broken human ecosystem by providing an equitable resource and opportunity system as well as creating a just and fair social system for the marginalized communities.
This can only be done with the involvement of different parties including the Malaysia and international social work scenes, local and global faith based organizations, the community-based and led organizations as well as the marginalized communities themselves with the commitment of meaningful, purposeful and sustainable work.
Beliefs and Practices:
In governing and managing our organization and our work, we want to ensure and commit to the below,
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In our communication with every stakeholder, from our staff, to our partners, donors, supporters and beneficiaries, we want to ensure that we are held accountable and being respectful in all that we say and do.
For the organization:
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In our work, integrity is a virtue that we want to hold onto, by being transparent and truthful. This will be translated into our finances, operation, governance and communication.
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In our organization, there will be imperfection and flaws but we want to have working relationships that able to reconcile and help each other grow as a better person.
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In our relationships working with people, we want to be professional and ethical as we are in the helping profession to serve, care, support and protect the people.
For the work:
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In our operation and deliverables, we want not only be cost effective and efficient but to perform well in different aspects, for we want to be a wise and faithful steward of the resources we receive.
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In the activities that we do, we want those who are involved whether it is the staff or beneficiaries to participate and involve in the decision making, so that they will be heard and valued.
Why do we do what we do?
We are convicted by Christ Jesus’ love to /[Organization statement (identity)]
faithfully steward all God-given blessings (time, talent, temple, treasure, testimony, trust, terra, truth, thirst) wisely, and
work with people from different backgrounds and professions, to
serve marginalized communities regardless of nationalities, races, religions, to
provide holistic care and enable holistic transformation with the ultimate goal of
sharing His love and make Him known through our faithful workmanship.
*SWWB is and will not be in any position to coerce or proselytize anyone to believe in Christianity. For we believe that faith is a personal informed decision made by the individuals themselves.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”