This is a project of the Sustainable Rural Community Development Organisation Malawi
VISION
The vision of SURCOD is a community that is empowered to advance rural initiative to access basic needs which can improve livelihoods, self reliance as well as community participation
MISSION
The mission of SURCOD is to facilitate development based on self-dependency and self sufficiency of the rural people through effective implementation, promotion and support of integrated rural development projects with full participation, ownership and empowerment for beneficiaries through promotion of rights based approaches
GOAL
The goal of SURCOD is to promote sustainable integrated community development for the rural communities through improving food security, household incomes, access to social services, water and sanitation and promotion of natural environment.
OBJECTIVES
SURCOD includes amongst its objectives:
To improve quality education and adult literacy levels
CORE VALUES
The following are the core values of SURCOD that the vision, mission, goals, objectives, strategies, operation principles are based on
a) Through analysis of the underlying causes of poverty including explicit and ongoing analysis of power, gender and risks
b) Community centered development including building sustainable capacity to claim rights and to drive decision making
c) The organization focusing on people that are marginalized and discriminated against with the aim of empowering them
d) The organization that is responsible for respecting protecting and fulfilling peoples needs as well as human rights identified and held accountable
Sustainable Rural Community Development Organisation Malawi has introduced a Scholarship to the vulnerable Secondary School going students in Malawi especially in Nsanje. We appealing to well wisher since currently we are being assisted by an individual from America who committed to give in $100.00 per month up to August 2011. But the students in need are many. With your small donation you can bring hope to a needy students for further information please contact us at [mailto:surcod_development@yahoo.co.uk]. Currently we are supporting 10 students with the funds received but we are intending to support over 50 students and according to our assessment carried out in November there are 200 students in need in Nsanje who are struggling with School fees. We are also seeking for partners to construct a skills training center where the youth will be trained in various skills such as carpentry, welding, brick laying, tailoring. We have the land, bricks as well as sand. But our challenges are the other remaining materials as well as the equipments such as machines, welding machines, computers and many other more. We are very open to work with you in assisting the vulnerable youths