Our Objectives

SCC is working towards achieving the following objectives for the benefit of its target groups:

  • To implement need-based projects and programs with special emphasis on Primary Health Care, GBV, Comprehensive Rural Development, Preservation of the environment, WASH programs, and Emergency Education Programs.
  • Inspiring youth and women through skills training and the creation of employment opportunities
  • lifting the most vulnerable Somali households out of extreme poverty and dependence on external aid and alms by giving them the skills and microgrants they need to establish themselves in work or business
  • Capacity building of volunteers to participate in activities that add value to the lives of ordinary citizens I.e. hygiene promotion, traditional midwifery, and community education
  • Increasing equitable access to quality education, providing safe learning environments, and ensuring retention and improved learning outcomes for the most vulnerable girls and boys in Somalia
  • Supporting peacebuilding and conflict resolution through working with local communities to promote dialogue, reconciliation, and co-existence
  • Ensure cost-effective, affordable, and accessible community-based health service, especially for women and children (Primary health, antennal and postnatal).
  • To enhance the health and nutrition services for mothers and children through capacity building for the staff of regional and District health centers
  • Protection and preservation of culture, language, and tradition of indigenous people
  • To establish/construct primary and secondary schools to facilitate access to education for school-going children.
  • To increase the enrollment of school-aged children in primary schools in South/Central Somalia by supporting primary schools with teaching and learning materials
  • To contribute towards increasing the retention rates in schools through equal opportunity access to quality education
  • To reduce incidences of harmful cultural practices through awareness-raising work with parents on child rights and their roles and responsibilities towards girls
  • To facilitate sustained access to safe water for households (for human and livestock use) in South/Central Somalia by developing and/or rehabilitating various water points and sources
  • To save lives, reduce vulnerabilities, and enhance the resilience of vulnerable, drought-affected households in South/Central Somalia through the provision of emergency water supplies.
  • To reduce waterborne and sanitation-related instances of disease in South/Central Somalia through community training & sanitation infrastructural development support
  • To contribute towards a safer environment for households living in South/Central Somalia through the provision of hygiene and sanitation information, facilities, and skills
  • To reduce maternal, perinatal, infant, and childhood mortality and morbidity and the promotion of reproductive health and the physical and psychosocial development of the child in IDP communities and in poor populations
  • To improve mothers’ health and their knowledge of health and nutrition issues.
  • To ease vulnerability and save the lives of vulnerable persons affected by disasters (natural or man-made) through the provision of food aid & other emergency relief support
  • To ensure continued food security for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in South/Central Somalia through skills development, the creation of linkages, and other appropriate agricultural support
  • Using community dialogues as platforms to bring people together in a safe space, to build awareness about harmful consequences of sexual violence, help participants transform harmful social norms related to gender, masculinity, stigma, and silence about sexual violence.