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,

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • 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.