Mission Statement
PHASE Worldwide
Practical Help Achieving Self Empowerment
Mission: To support communities in rural Nepal by providing opportunities and promoting community centred and sustainable development, utilising local resources and appropriate technology
Goal: To provide better life opportunities for people in rural Nepal
Objectives:
1. Improve Health:
- To ensure access to essential health services for all members of rural communities in the working area
- To improve maternal and child health
- To raise health awareness and provide information and education to give people control over their own health
- To improve access to drinking water, better sanitation and nutritious food
2. Improve access to Education:
- To ensure quality education for all children in the working area
- To make local schools more child-friendly
- To improve access to higher education for children from rural communities
- To help raise adult literacy rates and increase opportunities for adult education and vocational training
3. Improve access to better infrastructure and livelihoods
- To improve local infrastructure
- To help with agricultural development
- To support villagers to develop new life skills (capacity building)
- To help improve local governance and social development
- To improve access to markets and public facilities for people from remote villages
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These objectives are in line with the following Millenium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18th September 2000 (UN MDGs):
Goal number 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
(by increasing income opportunities of particularly the poorest groups of society)
Goal number 2: Achieve universal primary education
(by increasing access to education in remote areas, and improving the quality of education)
Goal number 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
(by raising female literacy, giving health education and encouraging participation of women in management of the projects)
Goal number 4: Reduce child mortality
(by increasing access to basic health services and encouraging vaccination and family planning)
Goal number 5: Improve maternal health
(by increasing access to antenatal and intrapartum care and family planning services and by raising awareness of common health problems)
Goal number 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
(particularly, improve case finding and treatment of TB, and prevent spread of HIV through health education and distribution of condoms)
Goal number 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
(this goal includes increasing access to safe drinking water; PHASE will also contribute to environmental stability by introducing sustainable forms of energy, wood-saving methods, and alternative sources of income for farmers in a sustainable way.)