Who We Are

Vision

A Community free of vulnerable people

Mission

To have a community free of vulnerable people by promoting access to quality health, education, food and nutrition, poverty alleviation and reduction of the impact of disaster and humanitarian crisis 

Core Values

Focus on disadvantaged people

  • Empathy rather than sympathy is the hallmark of true concern supported by HftV.

Empowerment, partnership, collaboration and sustainability

  • HftV views empowerment as an enabling process that lifts the individual and community from despondency to confidence in identifying their own problems and begins to do something
  •  HftV supports community participation and empowerment of the most disadvantaged people.
  • Empowered communities are in a position to demand assistance and services for impact and sustainability
  • Planning and implementing programmes in a participatory and collaborative manner.
  • Respecting the autonomy and right to self-determination of each partner with regard to their own priorities and methods of organisation.

Human dignity and Gender equality

  • HftV will treat women and men equally
  • HftV affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors, partners and staff
  • Equality shall guide our programming

Honesty, Integrity, Transparency and accountability

  • We act consistently with HftV mission, being honest and transparent in what we do and say
  • Our staff accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions
  • Commitment: We work together effectively to serve the larger community
  • HftV and its Staff will never hide any information to the stakeholders

Concern for Environment

  • HftV seek to promote efficiency and environmental sustainability
  • All Projects/Programs of HftV will be environmentally sound
  • HftV is a non-smoking organization
  • HftV promotes work place work balance and occupational health and safety

The best services

  • At HftV, we continually challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and performance to achieve greater impact
  • All Projects and programmes will be of high quality and exceed customer expectation
  • HftV projects and programmes will use and manage resources effectively and efficiently

Innovation and Creativity

  • HftV commit to continual innovate sustainable solution that meets the needs of the society
  • In all programs, innovation and creativity will be promoted.
  • Creativity and innovative solutions by staff and partners will be recognized and rewarded.

Objectives

HftV intends to grow into an international organization that provides responsive and dependable solutions to challenges affecting vulnerable people globally, targeting Health, food and nutrition, education, poverty alleviation, disaster/relief management and institutional development.

HftV will:

  1. Reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and promote access to quality sexual and reproductive health services among the vulnerable people by strengthening prevention, control and management practices
  2. Promote quality learning among vulnerable children, adolescents, youths, disable persons and girls through provision of fees, learning materials, trainings and others
  3. Promote quality food and nutrition among the vulnerable people through trainings, provision of food aid, strengthening food safety, advocacy and policy formulation and other basic necessities.
  4. Promote poverty alleviation among the vulnerable people through trainings, microfinance and making grants available to individuals and groups, adolescent, youth and women empowerment, safe drinking water, strengthening food security and others
  5. Support disaster/relief management through prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
  6. Carry out any other activities for the support of vulnerable persons

Capacity of the Members

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Focus Areas

Quality Health

 The focus areas seek to reduce the burden of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases and promote Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among the vulnerable people in the community.   The key communicable diseases targeted include Malaria, Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, HIV/AIDS, Neglected Tropical Diseases [NTDs] and emerging pandemics. The non-communicable diseases targeted include cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, sickle cell disease, epilepsy and mental health. The pillar also intends to contribute to eye health and sexual and reproductive health services among the vulnerable people in Kenya.

Food and Nutrition

The focus area seeks to contribute to the promotion of good food and nutrition to the vulnerable members in the community, especially in hard-to-reach counties as well as the slums of big cities and towns.

Youth training on vegetable farming for food and nutrition.
Chicken farming for food and nutrition.

Quality Education

This key area intends to contribute to quality education for vulnerable children, disables persons, adolescents and youths in the community.

Poverty Alleviation

The strategic focus will contribute to poverty alleviation among the vulnerable people by supporting education, access to healthcare, access to finance, gender equality, empowering girls and women, adolescents and youths, providing safe drinking water and proper sanitation, improve nutrition and food security, support environmental programs, bridging gap between policies and achievement, prevent child marriage and child labor.

Disaster/Relief Management

The pillar seeks to contribute to disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery among the vulnerable peoples. These shall be achieved through environmental conservation, mitigation of the impact of climate change, workplace safety and security and responding to emergency and humanitarian situations.

Institutional Development

HftV seeks to contribute to good leadership and governance, strategy and planning, general management and operations, supplies and procurement management, financial and physical resource management, infrastructure and equipment, human resource management, management information systems, external relations and partnerships for HftV as an organization.

Strategic Approaches to Implementation of Activities

Advocacy and Communication

HftV will utilize this approach to call for support from policy makers and managers at national, sub-national and community levels to promote innovative strategies and activities by individuals, organization and partners towards helping the vulnerable people. HftV will also use advocacy to lobby for the development of policy documents needed to provide guideline in the implementation of the activities. Communication messages and materials responsive to the needs of the vulnerable people will be developed and disseminated together with policy documents.

Capacity Development

The capacity development is needed to be able to nurture, enhance and utilize the skills and knowledge of the workers, partners, community and institution for the benefit of the vulnerable people in the community. This will involve trainings and strengthening of systems.

Service Delivery

HftV will support and provide services to the vulnerable people, especially community-based diagnosis and treatment  eg malaria, food and medicines during disasters, screening for cancers and others.

Infrastructural Improvement and Provision of Materials

HftV seeks to contribute to the responsive learning environment for disabled children by making them friendly, provide shelters to displaced persons during disasters, establish empowerment centers for youth and feeding centers for elderly persons and others. HftV will also support information technology needed by the targeted people and partners.

Collaborations and Partnership

HftV seeks to collaborate and also get in to partnership with NGOs, community-based organizations [CBOs], faith-based organization [FBOs], community groups, Government departments and others to enable effective, efficient and sustainable implementation of activities for the benefit of vulnerable people.

Operation Research and Evidence -Based Interventions:

  The organization will promote operation research to provide evidence for best practices and lessons learnt for replication in other parts of the country.

 

 

Institutional Development

HftV as an organization needs to undergo strategic strengthening and development to be able to spearhead the implementation of the activities in targeted areas.