MISSION STATEMENT
Mind to Change aims to help (re-)build the postwar society in finding ways for the society to absorb and involve vulnerable groups and people who find themselves in the margins of society, through empowerment of members of vulnerable groups with the tools to help them develop into responsible citizens and to help them (re)build their own lives.
WHO
Mind to Change will mainly target former child soldiers, war affected youths, the war disabled and children and youths who deviate from mainstream society, as well as talented young people who lack the means to develop themselves in their professional careers.
GOAL
Our main goal is to bring members of vulnerable groups back to mainstream society and to actively involve them in their communities, raise their awareness of their rights and duties as citizens of the community and the necessity of their contribution to society, and finally, to enable them to take responsibility over their own lives.
HOW
Our main activity is education, in every sense thinkable. Our programs will range from basic literacy and basic knowledge trainings to scholarships for basic education, academic education, to professional training and job counseling. Mind to Change will make long term investments in individuals as part of their communities. We will relate the needs of the individual to the needs of their communities and the society as a whole, to advise and to enable them to undergo the appropriate training for their professional development. We will employ an ’all the way’ approach: a twenty two year old ex-child soldier who is detached from his/her family and community who has the potential to develop him or herself in the academic field, for example, will be guided through his or her educational career until we can deliver him or her at their first job. From secondary school level to university and from university to the practical training necessary to fit in the job market. Mind to Change will provide the individual with material and immaterial assistance and we will try to re-establish his or her ties with their families and communities and find ways to put them back in the care of their legal caretakers.
OBJECTIVES
Mind to Change will focus its projects and programs on empowering and capacitating individual members of vulnerable groups to enable them to develop their own lives in the postwar society through education, capacity building and skills training.
Mind to Change will:
Stimulate durable peace,
Protect and promote the rights of members of vulnerable groups,
Stimulate societal reintegration and (re)building of the postwar society,
Educate donor countries about the effects and challenges of war and living in a postwar society, as well as educate donor countries about life in a developing country.
through;
the implementation of programs and projects in postwar societies
educational campaigns in postwar societies and donor countries to raise awareness
scientific research for the development of effective programs and the general good
participation and involvement in the political debate and policy making
