SERVE work with partners in Africa, Asia and South America. SERVE works towards the strategic goal of reducing vulnerability and improving livelihood security. We also have a specific interest in increasing access to Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) for young people. SERVE works through a partnership model as we believe that partnership is the best way of achieving sustainable development for our key target groups You can see a list of all the organisations that we partner with and their locations below.
Our Overseas Partner Organisations
MOZAMBIQUE
- Young Africa (Moz)
Young Africa’s mission is the integral development of underprivileged youth. They empower young people through practical skills training and by encouraging them to earn a decent living through income- generating projects. Young Africa teaches young people skills of hands, to make them self-reliant, skills of heart and mind, to live with dignity and responsibility, skills of the soul to live with purpose.
- Muvamba Mission
The Redemptorist Muvamba mission is committed to an Education Programme involving:
Promoting the importance of education at community meetings and as part of the youth leadership training especially the value of educating girls; Aligning the Water for All Programme with the Education for All programme as much as possible, so as to get the maximum benefit from both programmes; Construction of primary school facilities in rural areas including the construction of teachers housing, so that teachers are incentivised to teach at rural locations; Construction of Muvamba Secondary School; Running teacher training coursed for 130+ teachers each year to increase the quality of education in Muvamba.
ZIMBABWE
- Young Africa (Zim)
Young Africa’s mission is the integral development of underprivileged youth. They empower young people through practical skills training and by encouraging them to earn a decent living through income- generating projects. Young Africa teaches young people skills of hands, to make them self-reliant, skills of heart and mind, to live with dignity and responsibility, skills of the soul to live with purpose
- Mavambo Trust
Mavambo Trust was formed in 2001 to assist children in accessing educational opportunities in the Mabvuku, Tafara and Bhobho regions of Harare. Since its foundation the Trust had developed additional programmes to offer holistic support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) who have been affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS. Programmes run by the Mavambo Trust include: Education Support, Nutrition Programme and Health Provision programmes.
Caritas Zimbabwe was established in 1972 as a development initiative and also responds to the emergency situation that prevailed in the country at the time that a liberation war was being fought. The program themes define the scope of Caritas Zimbabwe’s work implemented in dioceses and these are: Respond to Emergencies and Disasters; Tackle injustice and defend human rights; Address the HIV and AIDS crisis; Support gender equality; Encourage self-reliance via development programs.
SOUTH AFRICA
“Tapologo”, a Setswana word indicating the theme of “peace and rest” expresses the mission of Tapologo which is the guiding response of this HIV/Aids programme. The programme consists of the following sub-programmes: (1) Outreach and Home Based Care. (2) Orphan & Vulnerable Children (OVC) Programme (3) Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) Programme (4) In-patient Unit (IPU) and Hospice
The modus operandi of the community is to work with the people directly, in the belief that human resources are present among the people themselves and that real development means enabling people to identify and make decisions about their own needs. Tsholofelo Community projects are situated in places where the very poor and marginalised live. These settlements vary from 5,000 to 20,000 people.
ZAMBIA
The mandate of St. Bakhita is to foster and uphold human dignity through promotion of integral human development. St Bakhita is established as a response to the needs of the vulnerable in the society and it does this through:
Empowerment (quality education, skills, spiritual guidance, formation, rehabilitation, and provisions of employment); Offers shelter that becomes a home to the poor and the homeless; Hospitality; Recreation and rehabilitation activities targeting the youths; Care for the needy who seek help.
NAMIBIA
- Young Africa (Namibia)
Young Africa’s mission is the integral development of underprivileged youth. They empower young people through practical skills training and by encouraging them to earn a decent living through income- generating projects. Young Africa teaches young people skills of hands, to make them self-reliant, skills of heart and mind, to live with dignity and responsibility, skills of the soul to live with purpose.
Young Africa Namibia is in the start-up phase. It is situated in a township, Kuisebmund, nearby Walvis Bay. The centre will provide practical skills training in installation and maintenance of solar panels, in combination with other solar energy technologies, as well as basic electronics.
PHILIPPINES
The Presentation Sisters began working in Cebu around 1990 in an effort to help integrate and educate the people of the Badjao tribe in a way which allows them to maintain their culture and dignity but also assert their rights in the Philippines. Over the last number of years this hard work and dedication has resulted in the construction of a school, dignified housing, a medical centre and the development of a self-sustaining community.
INDIA
The Association for People with Disability (APD) is a Bangalore based organisation working since 1959 for children, youth and adults with various types of disabilities — primarily those with physical disability, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, development delay, and speech and multiple disabilities. APD offers programmes in Education, Training and Employment, Therapeutic Services, Horticulture Units, People’s Organizations and Advocacy, Resource Support to Organizations (RSO), District Disability Programme.
- Morning Star Orphanage
Morning Star is a Bangalore based project which focuses on both educating disadvantaged children and providing a home for street children. The Centre or ‘Ashram’ is presently home to 86 children and young adults and following a recent renovation project, Morning Star has the capacity to provide for 120 young people.
The Sumanahalli centre was established in 1978 and its initial objective was to establish an organisation that would help treat and rehabilitate those suffering with leprosy in and around Bangalore. Sumanahalli is working in a number of areas in Bangalore and provides MDT drugs free of cost to leprosy sufferers. Sumanahalli also provides education, vocational training and life-skills training to leprosy patients who have been excluded from mainstream society. Sumanahalli also works closely with communities to tackle stigma and ignorance around the issue of leprosy.
The Jyothi Seva School is run by the Congregation of Polish Franciscan Sisters, and is dedicated to the education, rehabilitation and care of the visually challenged and mentally disabled children. The Jyothi Seva Society aims at helping the visually challenged to discover their own dignity and value and to bring out the best in themselves.
BRAZIL
Caritas is a Brazilian organization that promotes social activities and working in defence of human rights, food security and sustainable development in solidarity. Its performance is close to the excluded and excluded in defence of life and participation in the joint construction of a just, egalitarian and pluralistic.
THAILAND
In 1983, the Good Shepherd Sisters began income-generating projects out of concern for the young men and women migrating to cities in search of work, and to provide employment opportunities for women living in poverty, struggling to provide for their families, in the surrounding villages. The Regina Center hosts three sites that provide training and employment for 200 villagers: Isan Pottery, Isan Weaving and the Hands of Hope project. Through learning the skills of handwork and sewing, the women at the Regina Center are given opportunities to provide for their families and to further their own education.
