Vision

Amitofo Care Centre Australia seeks to create a safe and caring environment for the provision of holistic education for every child, every day.

Mission

To build nurturing and positive communities that serve as family units and educational institutions for orphans and vulnerable children across African nations.

Goals

  • Provide a high-quality education for vulnerable children by using a combination of local curriculum, English, Mandarin, and Buddhist teachings
  • Provide a complete living environment that helps to dismantle the cycle of poverty including access to clean water, safety, and efficient sanitation
  • Ensuring children have good health and wellbeing by including programs that help with their mental health, such as meditation
  • Eliminate hunger by providing food and teaching children how to ensure their communities stay resilient
  • Enhance gender equality by highlighting gender disparities and providing young girls with the skills and tools to thrive
  • Ensure children maintain close ties to their tribe, family, and culture

Values

  • Learning

Creating a community in which children can be educated

  • Relationships

Creating and maintaining meaningful relationships with surrounding villages and local communities in order to preserve indigenous African culture

  • Integrity

Activities must always be conducted with honesty and responsibility

  • Accountability

Demonstrate personal and institutional accountability. Provide for each child's education. Ethical conduct will be adhered to, as will mandates, policies, and procedures

  • Respect

Promote a community that knows the value of people and cultures through practice of the values and ethics of Buddhism

  • Service

Delivering compassion and a philosophy of loving and kindness to all

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